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Canceled events
Students grieve canceled activities, events
With school being closed for the rest of the year due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many events have been canceled to ensure people’s safety. However, it leaves many students missing out on important opportunities to showcase their abilities and have fun with their classmates.
One big milestone that affects many high school students is prom. Many students have been feeling the loss of one of their favorite events of the year.
“Prom, to me, is really fun because I love to dance and just have a great time with my friends. We all get our hair and makeup done and take pictures together; we just really make a whole day out of it, not just the couple hours that prom is,” Ally Justice (12) said. “I will miss all of this excitement that comes with it, especially because it would be our senior prom. I hope there is some way that we could still have it once this mess is all over with.”
Many students are also going to miss their sports and other activities. Students were looking forward to making improvements and beating old records. Mason Busick (10) is going to miss out on his sophomore track season.
“I’m going to miss all the meets and sectionals, regional, and state. This means I lose a year to get better and be able to
compete, which also means I lose a year to chase my goal of beating my dad’s record for school. It all really sucks basically,” Busick said.
Another big event that students will be missing out on is the SHS Spring Production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. The show was rescheduled to the fall or winter of 2020, but it is dependent on if students regularly return back to school next year and gathering sizes increase from the governor’s current mandates.
“I am going to miss out on all the fun that our sophomore year still had left. I am also really going to miss performing the musical that our whole cast worked so incredibly hard on,” Johnathon Perkinson (10) said.
As many as the functions and events started canceling one by one, winter guard was one of the first to officially put an end to their season. The winter guard, Indiana High School Color Guard Association, and Tristate Marching Arts work together. With winter guard competitions being a large gathering of people, the directors decided for the safety and health of the students to cancel. For winter guard members, such as Alyssa Hood (9), this was devastating news.
“I think that realizing I’m one step closer to becoming a ‘leader’ in the program is really making me think about how much I love it and how devastated I’d be if anything like this was to happen again,” Hood said. “I miss all of the hard work and effort everyone always put into everything. The dedication was just so real.”
With many students being athletes and performers, those events that have been canceled will surely be missed by many. However, most students are going to miss those last few months that would mean stepping up to next year.
“Overall, I’m worried about what my future holds now. It all seems uncertain, and that’s scary. I also made some really good friends this year that were seniors, and I feel like I didn’t get to spend as much time with them as I would’ve liked,” Ellie Bryson (10) said. “It was good while it lasted though. I wish them the best, and I hate that they missed out on so much of that high school experience.”
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