I feel bad for the high school seniors this year...
I have three graduating this year. My eldest is completing his Associate’s and then heading away for his Bachelor’s, my middle child is graduating high school, and my youngest is moving up from Jr. High.
Trips, dances, and graduation ceremonies all cancelled.
Top that off with two trips to the hospital so far to shake this cough, fever, and lung pain (I’m in quarantine now finally awaiting my COVID 19 test results), and chewing up my sick and vacation time missing weeks of work, it has been a lousy year.
The only bright spot was the Dems getting crushed during the impeachment sham.
I HATE China.
Maybe it would make them feel better to know 30 to 200 times
their graduating class size may be dead by the end of the
summer.
If they and their family members are alive, perhaps they can
find something to be happy about after all.
Me too. This is driving the kids nuts. My seven year old grandson is cooped up with Parents and baby brother, and he is not loving it. It’s got to be three times as bad for the teens.
Hang in there kids! We love you!
Well, this whole coronavirus thing is a once-in-a-lifetime memory. They can enjoy all those activities next year, because everyone will have to repeat this uncompleted school year.
Want to know what will break this Left-wing destruction of our nation’s economy by locking down the country? Get these disappointed Seniors from every HighSchool in America out in the streets on May Day demanding that they be allowed a graduation.
After all, we didn’t cancel senior year activities during WW 1 and WW 2, so why now, when far fewer people have died of the coronovirus than have died of the flu? How ridiculous that this media fiasco has cost us trillions of dollars. Sweden was not as stupid.
The high school seniors can have their proms and graduation ceremonies in the summertime, if this pandemic has passed by then.
Maybe this year they’ll even learn that life has setbacks and disappointments, but everything can still work out in the end.
All he cares about is the job awaiting him....which is in one of the few "necessary" groups and military related. He just lucked out....hope it works out for him. Sadly...it won't work out for many who expected to slide into the workforce.
But we'll spring back...The economy is "US" and failure is not an option.
Schools in Kansas have been closed for several weeks already.
I’m a HS lacrosse coach, as my primary hobby.
Our season was finally cancelled Thursday.
I feel bad for the seniors. There were some kids that had spent years waiting to be “the man” and that chance is gone. I told my son that, who is a junior goalie, and he said “what about me? My season is gone too.”
Anyway, saw a funny yard sign the other day “congratulations lakeside seniors. Class of corona”
My wife’s uncle missed his high school graduation too. He was drafted into WWII. At his graduation ceremony his empty chair was covered with an American flag. Real Americans are always ready to meet the sacrifices required to meet any national challenges. Every person that served in the military in WWII was/is my hero. They went to war, won the damn thing, and came home expecting nothing in return. He was one to those heroes. So were four of my uncles.
Maybe these idled high school seniors can use this time to read our U.S. Constitution and The Federalist Papers?
Yeah...sure...
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood.
It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Sam Adams
“... or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
I feel certain that a group of cooperating parents could setup and operate a prom. God damn, people, the Nation landed people on the moon.
It’s once in a lifetime. Let them go have fun. They can die anither day.
Besides...it’s not covid, the kiddies call it “Boomer Remover”
No prom might be disappointing, but imagine you are a college senior nursing student just needing clinical time in a hospital or medical center to graduate and due to COVD-19 healthcare facilities have indefinitely suspended all clinical training time and the NCLEX exam you need to take to become certified and licensed as a nurse is also indefinitely suspended.
SNOWFLAKES CAN’T TAKE MISSING A BOOZE PARTY.
I NEVER HAD A PROM, DIDN’T BOTHER ME. WE SIMPLY COULDN’T AFFORD IT. I’m the eldest of 4, lots of things were hand me downs, as my mom was next to the youngest of 6 sisters.
My high school senior son isn’t complaining, but I do feel bad for him. Missing prom, graduation, his last season of baseball.
I came home from the store yesterday and there was a gaggle of neighborhood girls in the driveway talking to him while he was washing his truck. So maybe I shouldn’t feel too sorry for him...
Devastating is something far different than missing a senior prom.
We have created two generations of marshmallows who are going to have to learn how to cope.
News Flash :
I was a teenager once and have keen insight on this topic.
They *WILL* make up for it !!
Not sayin’ this is a good thing or bad . . . just sayin’ !!
Agree they will not have that memory of what they worked so hard for.