COLUMBIA - Columbia Public Schools students have been out of the classroom and learning online for nearly a year. Starting on April 5, students will transition back to a 5-day in-person learning week after the Board of Education unanimously voted to return full-time Monday night.
Vignesh Kumar is a senior at Rock Bridge High School. As he s preparing to leave Columbia for college next year, he explained what his senior year during a global pandemic has been like. It s been a weird form of stress for students this year because the stress isn t about an assignment due next Monday, but kind of this impending sense of uncertainty, Kumar said. It doesn t feel like how I expected senior year to be. Â