For today’s seniors, every year of high school has been touched by the pandemic. The closest they got to a traditional experience — the kind that has been chronicled in countless American coming-of-age movies — was in 2019, their freshman year.
“We are the only class who doesn’t really know what it’s like to go to high school in a sense,” says Twyla Colburn, a senior in Portland, Ore.
Twyla is one of five high school seniors NPR spoke with about what it has been like to go to high school during COVID and how they think it changed them.
