School Reopening!

5/3/21

Joshua Melendez and Cristal Perez

On April 27 2021 our school LASGS reopened for the first time since the pandemic began. Luckily for you, two students of Ms. Hickman’s Journalism class will give you the inside scoop on how our first days went. Joshua described his first day experience as, “not as bad as I thought” his impression was that the school was extremely empty and quiet. He mentioned that he also felt that the learning environment was really independent and sanitary, in his class there were 4 students and 1 teacher. He later said the worst experience out of his day was the laggy computers which aren’t even that bad. The best thing about in person learning is how you’re not allowed to slack off and that allows you to pay attention and focus during your classes.

On the first day of school, Cristal experienced it as “ It was nice coming back, it’s more better” what she meant by that is what Joshua had said on his experience on how school was “extremely empty and quiet” Cristal seemed to have liked how quiet and empty school was. She said school went out great but there were pros and cons. She said The pros were that everywhere you go, there would be sanitary stations to hand sanitize your hands, also that everywhere you go everything would be filled with posters for students to follow so no one is at risk for Covid. She had also said that it’s a great environment to go to if you want to pay attention to your classes and stay focus because there were hardly ANY distractions and you could finish your work faster so it would be on time. The only cons she said was that the computer were slow if you got one from the school and there were a lot of internet problems.

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