News story

Gracie Mack

The 2023 seniors will be the first and last seniors that went through all of high school in a “global pandemic”. In 2019 the freshman came into high school thinking they would experience high school like every class before them did. Fall and Winter both passed and so far, so good, right? Wrong. In late February a lady who was an alumni from Manitowoc Lutheran High School came back to her high school and gave a presentation, her reason for being back in the states, “a disease was going around forcing people to stay and not have contact with other people, to be quarantined”.

March came. Spring sports were already getting canceled. Schools across the country we’re going virtually for the first time ever, and some schools were closing for good. Everyone in fear of what this global disease and sickness was. 2020-2021 school year started and some schools went back to in person some did not. For those that did masks had to be worn. It became habit to bring one with you everywhere. A student section at games were nonexistent. Those freshman in 2019 are now sophomore still missing out on real high school experiences.

2021-2022 came and it was the first full school year, no one had to wear masks anymore. Nothing got canceled. It was the first normal school year, but those freshmen are already upperclassmen by now, Juniors. In the hardest year of high school.

Now, we are in the 2022-2023 school year and those freshmen are now seniors. They will be the last class to graduate from a weird high school career, but they will also be the first to graduate high school while going through a global pandemic all 4 years of high school.