The story of struggling students during a virtual school year
Last Stop
This image shows a student stuck between two buses. This image represents how things felt for students entering a virtual school year. For many of us, we weren’t given much information regarding the start of our virtual year. It felt as though the system that was supposed to support us was closing in around us.
Internet high School
This piece shows a student sitting on a couch outside of a school labeled Internet high school. This symbolizes how students aren’t even allowed to enter the school they’re doing work for During the pandemic. We see papers falling around the student. This symbolizes how The work is piling up for students. Yet, as we can see in this image, there’s no one around to help pick it up. She’s alone in the dark.
Muted
Here we see a girl sitting on a slide wearing a mask which displays a muted microphone symbol. This image represents how children used flood playgrounds at recess and you would here yelling and laughter but now young students sit behind a screen mic’s muted missing essential connection with their classmates
Losing Score
Students sit in rows 6 feet apart with masks covering their faces to symbolize how practically all students keep their cameras off. They sit on the football field representing the impact of student athletics, and the scoreboard states that students are 0 to 19 representing COVID-19 and how students have lost the battle against this disease.
Flunked
This image shows a boy on a playground wearing a mask displaying an “ F-, “ showing the school system's failure for younger students and how the education of younger generations will no doubt be affected by this pandemic.
Lost Connection
This piece displays the fragility of the bond between students without face-to-face interaction and highlights how Virtual learning does not work for many students who now feel alone with the school system's lack of help.
Take A Byte
This piece represents virtual learning‘s effect on students who depend on their school for food. Sometimes students live in an environment where food is scarce. During this pandemic, they’ve taken a big hit. We can see the girl picking at her food, which is made of electronic parts, because she hasn’t been able to eat since the start of online learning.
Late work
Throughout virtual learning Many students fell behind and the mountains of late work piled up as students struggled to keep up.
Plugged in
This image shows the endless amounts of work that seniors experienced throughout the pandemic. Most of us felt like we were glued to our computers between meeting graduation requirements. It felt like we were always “ plugged in. “
Senior portrait
One central element of being a Senior is your senior portrait; however, my senior year was not in any way, and I thought my portrait should reflect that.
Fortune of the teacher
This recreation of the 3 of swords tarot card shows the teachers feeling of hurt and disappointment brought on my the school systems failure to support them during the pandemic and the loneliness they feel in their empty classrooms
Fortune of the student
This recreation of the hanged man tarot card reflects on the students struggles and sacrifices the students have made and how they feel stuck during these uncertain times.