Students speak out: Is in-person school the best option and if so, how should it work?

We all want the same thing; we want our senior experience, but what are we willing to risk to achieve that? Our health? Our family’s health? Our lives? Life goes beyond a senior year and even though I would like the normal experience I’m not willing to put myself and others at risk to achieve that. We all think we’re invincible until we’re not. I want my senior experience but it’s simply n...

Imagine, you wait four years to have the stereotypical senior experience. Homecoming week, prom, graduation, just to name a few. However the class of 2021 is just anticipating when they will even be able to have class not over a computer screen.  When COVID-19 struck in early March I had no clue that I might not get to return to high school. I figured this would all be cleared up before the ...

Annnnd 7 months later we’re still in almost the same position we were in when the COVID-19 virus took its first big toll on all schools in Clark County. At this point, I believe the only way to keep this from consuming our lives is to stay positive and take on each day at a time. We are well aware that we really don’t know what’s going to happen next. I think the next step is being aware of what...

Empty. That has been of the life of the school buildings since we have been virtual. No longer seeing friends. No longer getting hands-on, one-on-one help from teachers. Just empty buildings and lagging Wi-Fi. Let us back in school. To ensure safety, the school district has purchased thermal reading cameras to check all the students' temperatures as they come in the building. Yet with lonely halls, ...

When we’re in school, everyone complains about not wanting to go. We are forced to stay home and then everyone complains that we aren’t in school. We developed an online schooling system and everyone complained about that. So what will be different when we go back? People will still complain just as much, if not more. We all want normal back, but in reality, that’s just not possible right...

Going back to in-person school rather than staying online is the better option and it's a risk I and many others are willing to take. Especially for the seniors, it's our last year to really be a kid and it's awful that we are getting it taken away from us.  Not everything is going to be easy and we can't just take the easy way out and decide that we aren't going to go back to school. There ar...

I want to have a normal senior year just as much as the next guy, but sadly that’s just not in the cards for us. I think it’s time that we realize that even if we do go back to school it's not going to be at all how we want it to be. Think of how school was in the past, and then remove all social aspects of it -- no chatting in the halls, masks on all the time (seriously ALL the time), and ...

This pandemic has affected each and every one of us differently, but one of the biggest hardships affecting our youth is a decline in our mental health. Going back to school can provide a sense of normality to our students that we have lost these past six months.  Staying at home and not seeing teachers, friends, and counselors can have an immense impact on our mental health. KHSAA Executive D...

Let me put you in my shoes for a moment. It’s my senior year, and I haven’t even gone back to school for a full school day. I’ve only experienced two and a half years of high school because even my junior year was cut short. My childhood is almost over, and I haven’t been allowed to experience it for the past eight months. I want to go back, because after this school year, I will never get...

Let’s be honest -- few of us really enjoy doing school work; we just like the interaction we get while being there. So when people hear that we could be going back to school they get excited because they think that it's going to go back to how it used to be but it's not. Going back is actually putting the “normal” school that everyone loves at risk. When or if we go back there isn’...

This year has brought many uncertainties to our daily lives. We have come to one of the hardest decisions to make: How we will return to school? No one has ever experienced this before. One thing I know for sure is that if we are going back, we can not bring everyone all at once. Before you jump into the lake, you're not going to just jump in without putting on a life jacket or dipping your toes...