As we slowly approach one year of quarantine, I have reflected on how much daily life has changed, from Zoom school to wearing a mask on walks in my neighborhood. At the beginning of this, the quarantine allowed somewhat of a break, a short time period to ponder anything we wanted to.
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As the 2020-2021 school year approached in late August and early September, schools across the country implemented different hybrid learning models to allow students to safely attend in-person classes during the pandemic. Catlin Gabel School (CGS) hopes to soon apply hybrid learning as well.
With classes functioning completely online since the start of the school year, many students at Catlin Gabel School (CGS) are already experiencing Zoom fatigue or Zoom burnout, that feeling that students can’t possibly continue going about school this way. The symptoms include lack of motivation, headaches, extreme drowsiness, depression, and anxiety or higher levels of stress. All of these symptoms can have a negative on students' overall mental health.
Read MoreAs the 2019-20 school year came to a close in early June, the world around us erupted in every way possible. One of the leading forces of this eruption was the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests due to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. (May they rest in power.) Determined and concerned Catlin Gabel School (CGS) students joined forces to combat racism and created a new student group called the Anti-Racist Collective, or ARC.
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