Does anyone really think we will be back to normal by the end of may or beginning of june...I sure dont.
I would hate to lose my daughter, because she caught the plague at graduation.
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You know, I read an OP like this and I realize, people are still not taking this seriously. Who thinks a bunch of teenagers on a crowded dance floor is a good idea? This is not going away by May, people, we will still have some social distancing guidelines in 4 or 6 weeks. People might be allowed back to work, but I doubt crowded dance floors will be a thing for a while. Especially because people are not taking it seriously today.
If not having a dance is "devastating" high five for giving them a great life with no actual problems.
I'm thinking mid to late June in Maryland. China had Wuhan on lockdown (and a more strictly enforced one) for 2.5 months, iirc. Our current models predict an infection peak under the present conditions for sometime in May. Got to wait sometime for that peak to come down.Does anyone really think we will be back to normal by the end of may or beginning of june...I sure dont.
My kid is the same. He and his girlfriend did prom last year, and while looking forward to it this senior year, was basically so what with it not happening. If commencement wasn't in limbo, he'd have a good chance to be one of the speakers, but I don't think he is upset that this (once in a lifetime) opportunity won't happen. Sees what's happening in the world and is now more focused on how to have a productive summer given current circumstances.I wouldn't say you have thick skin. I would say you kinda maybe have semi thick skin.
It was cancelled...get over it. My senior did in 30 seconds...or less.
Does anyone really think we will be back to normal by the end of may or beginning of june...I sure dont.
I used that word in a teenage context. The better choice and probably more accurate description would have been Very Disappointed. For our friends their daughter is college bound and over time, not having a prom will be something to talk about when looking back on 2020. However my wife teaches a lot of kids who will never be able to afford college and or have the skills or discipline to graduate if they could go. For those who didn’t get kicked put or drop out, graduation and Prom may be the two most ceremonial events in their lives. Maybe a bigger celebration than getting married to baby daddy number three years from now.
While COVID19 will come and go, the impact on our society may be felt and remembered for a long time. My hope is that maybe this generation of young people will stop taking life for granite and actually choose to participate in directing their future as opposed to letting it be handed to, and ungratefully accepted, by them.
Well that is a high and mighty pompous post if I ever saw one
Sounds like a great learning opportunity about what is important in life.
Did anyone really think prom was still going to happen?
Which brings me to my point; I'm the father of a Class of 2020 BCPS student, who on the evening of Friday, April 3rd had their dreams crushed by the cowardly and callus robocall and text message from BCPS Superintendent Darryl L. Williams. (Letter attached).
In this letter, with a flick of a pen, Dr. Williams denies my daughter, Victoria, and hundreds of her peers their Senior Prom, with false empathy he coldly does this giving no consideration for postponing this landmark event in our children’s lives. How many fathers had to break this news to their daughter or son tonight, how many had their daughter, like mine, sobbing in their arms pleading to them, ‘Daddy, please don’t let them do this, I worked so hard’.
Well, prom and graduation I can deal with... Right now, despite saving TONS of money in a "targeted" 2020 date 529 plans, we are seeing significant drops. My daughter so wants to go to Purdue and become an engineer. She worked her ass off, putting off social stuff, boys, and general shenanigans to have the BEST grades and right activities.
We HAD just enough to send her OOS, and now we don't. Which means loans loans loans and further assistance from us when we already pumped a bunch of our hard earned money in.... And Purdue is relatively cheap. Wisconsin wanted $212,000 as did Texas A&M.
She got decent money from Delaware and Ohio State but its NOT where she wants to go.... We are worried about her. No prom, no graduation (likely), and now going to college somewhere she REALLY wanted to, may not happen. Lets suppose we suck it up and send her anyway.... What if they close the school and do distance learning instead? The whole premise of Purdue is how to approach education as a collaborative process rather than isolating and judging everyone individually (yea they still get graded on their own but they also get graded for their collaboration effort). So not even really getting that freshman year away from home, doing what they want, when they want to, all part of the growing up and away from the parents.
The level of suckiness is undeniable. And it goes beyond just HS stuff. It's life changing.
Hell. My daughter didn't even walk for her college graduation. She got her degree and that's what she went to college for.
1,169 people died today in NY and I bet they and their and families wished they had your problems.
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