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at closure as an ending, but rather an opening to something new.

Most students in this school had to grow up quickly after COVID hit. After a semester of living through a pandemic, then a virtual school year as treatments were figured out, the class of ‘23 were no longer second semester freshmen; they were juniors. As teachers tried to figure out how to move back from virtual classes to in-person, the students had to adjust along with them, goal is to have good grades, a good job, and good insurance."

What are your goals for the end of the year?

Kitty that Draws - Mya Cates and now those same students who didn’t get to finish their freshmen years are about to graduate.

According to goodtherapy. org, “The importance of closure, particularly after a traumatic event, is increasingly acknowledged in popular psychology. The need for closure often centers around a need for a missing piece of information, particularly about why someone did or said something. What constitutes closure varies from person to person and is highly dependent upon the context surrounding a stressful event.” The senior class should embrace the closure that is coming with graduation. While health concerns will always exist, most graduating seniors’ experiences with high school are synonymous with COVID. Instead of worrying about what was lost, embrace the closure that comes from the end of high school and the beginning of the rest of your lives.

"My goal is to finish out the rest of the year with a 4.0 GPA."

The Kitchen - Klayton Wilkinson