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An abnormal school year

 I strongly assume that every student can tell that COVID has affected their school year in some way. However, it is difficult to say at this point if this disruption of our schooling has interfered with our education. I’ve actually heard some students say that they’ve hardly learned anything during the time at home. What was it like for you? Let’s start with the difference from normal school years. The first two months were quite normal, apart from new hygienic standards. Then, however, students in upper secondary school switched to distance learning from November until February and only entered the school for exams. Some classes were taught as online meetings, others were work schedules with individual assignments. From February to May, every class got split into two groups that attend school for half a week. Yet it can be said that students were forced to develop skills which they wouldn’t have learned in a normal year. Computer competencies, working with online programs such as...