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EDUCATION
'It was probably one of the toughest years.' Recent high school grad reflects on pandemic.
High school didn’t come without challenges for recent Matanzas High School graduate Finn Graifer. The Class of 2024 started its four-year journey during the 2020-21 school year, which was still riddled with pandemic irregularities. Matanzas was operating with an “integrated classroom” system at the time, Graifer said, where some students would show up to school masked and in-person while others would attend classes through Zoom.
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