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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 2020 kid who's really starting to feel the consequences of the pandemic IMO in ways that we're only recognizing now. He and his peers definitely missed out on a lot -- I mean, having his last semester of his HS sport would have been great, and prom, and graduation, but the biggest loss was a normal freshman year when kids are most ready to socialize, meet new friends, and imprint on each other like ducklings. DS held it together really well his first year in a single in the dorm with all remote classes but now he's really feeling it in that all his friends are friends from HS and there's splits in the friend group. As a kid who is shy/introverted anyway, and who really relies on his friends for support, he's feeling stuck because it's just not as easy junior year to find and make new friends for an introverted kid like him.

I know others as well who just pushed through their senior years and their first year or two of college but the wheels have come off in various ways. I just don't think we should underestimate how hard the pandemic and lockdown (as necessary as it was) were on them at a crucial stage in their lives.[/quote]

I have a 2020 and agree with you. Missing the last eight weeks of senior year festivities was a drag, but probably not damaging. But missing the opportunity to really launch into a new chapter and embrace a new kind of independence was terribly hard on a lot of kids that I know and I’m aware of. I think there was a hope that kids who started college in 2020 would have a real “in this together” experience, but ultimately, I think it was very isolating for so many.[/quote]

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