Many students graduating high school this year haven’t taken an in-person exam since Grade 10.
And that’s just one of the new challenges the graduating class faces as its students prepare to enter post-secondary life after most of their high school education was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the class of 2022, restrictions to prevent spread of COVID-19 included cancelled labs, co-op placements, extracurricular clubs and sports. And “compassionate grading” policies meant many students received more lenient than normal assessments on assignments and tests.
Outside of school, the pandemic even managed to derail the social lives of teenagers, and some senior high school students say after periods of forced isolation, they
