During the last year we personally, as high-school students, changed the way we see school, and all those moments that for us were so common and normal before Coronavirus now are not so common anymore.
Going to get coffee at the bar in front of the school every morning with our friends; get to class and look at our classmates as they are the ones who we are hating the most because we’ve had a tough morning; hug our friends during the break because we want some demonstrations of affection to not think about the test that we’ve spent a lot of time studying for and that didn’t go as we expected. These are all of the stupid things that we, as students, are missing the most right now.
Since schools have been closed, every day started looking the same: it is like a very short, but at the same time endless, loop that started in March and went on for way too long. At first it didn’t seem that bad: it was like if we were having some rest days, where we could think more about ourselves and forget what people use to call “teenage problems”, but then it started to be boring and all of us recognized the feeling of emptiness that this situation created.
School is not just learning notions by heart and studying big books to get good grades, school is also made of relationships, socialization, emotions, and physical contact: all things that distance learning is stealing from us, and, thus, is also stealing the best years of our teenagers’ lives.
Pierfrancesco Biondi, Ida Baratta, III I
