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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I am a senior English teacher and so many of my students are [b]absolutely devastated[/b] right now — some of you posting on this thread are downright mean!

Most schools are scrambling to try to find ways to help them feel special. And they SHOULD feel special. I’m disheartened to read so many parents disagree. [/quote]

Devastated? Oh please! They should watch the news out of NYC and NJ (where I live) to get some perspective. That's devastating. Not being able to have some dance and ceremony is not devastating. Maybe it's kind of disappointing, but not devastating! If this had happened during my senior year (2008) and I was being a sour puss over senior stuff being canceled, my mother would have screamed, "Grow up and get the f*** over it!" in my face. She actually did that to me a few years ago when I was upset over not getting a new job that I really wanted.

I am actually an HS teacher too and some of my students are actually relieved about not having the prom and all-night grad party, because they did not want to go and their parents were going to force them to go. A lot of them also made comments about how graduation was going to be boring, because they had attended previous ceremonies due to being in band or choir. I don't think the kids are as upset as they are being made out to be. They are being more mature than most adults about this. [/quote]

Yeah... devastated. And that's totally age appropriate. Being mature and devastated are not mutually exclusive: they can be deeply upset at their own losses right now (which are losses, especially when you think of the range of things they're missing out on -- a 'normal' starting college journey being one of them) while at the same time be able to understand the gravity of the pandemic in its entirety. They can do both. Let them have their grief without belittling it as "not mature!" [/quote]

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