Episode 2: "The Kids Have Gone Through Hell"
“When these kids really needed a lifeline, they needed to know, okay, we don’t know how to use Google Classroom... but that doesn’t mean you don’t try to pick up a phone and make some kind of outreach.”
By Mardiya Rafat
Mardiya reported this story as a senior in high school. She lives in Manhattan.
I didn’t expect for it to be this hard to navigate my high school years, but then halfway through my sophomore year, Covid hit. Everything changed. I found myself in a state of panic over my safety, my family’s safety, and on top of that, I was stressing out about school and my grades.
Do teachers realize the extent to which we, students, have been affected? What are their views on students’ mental health— and their role in helping students manage stress? I took these questions to my school and got some surprising answers.
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