2025-03-14
27 分钟Hi, my name is Lisa Miller, and I'm a correspondent on the well desk at the New York Times.
Between 2020 and 2021, I had a teenager in lockdown.
And so I watched as she and.
Her friends missed all of the markers of high school.
Not just classroom teaching, which they did.
Miss for more than a year, but also all the things the school play.
School dances, dating in person, hanging out.
After school, at each other's houses.
Anything that you can imagine happening when you're 16 didn't happen with these kids.
And I wondered, what will be the long term effects on this generation of.
This period of lockdown?
The kids who were seniors in high school in 2021 are 21 and 22 years old now and able to reflect.
Themselves on both how that period felt to them and how it changed them.
That's what I wanted to explore in.
This article that I'll be reading to you in a moment to do my reporting.
I started looking for school districts that were closed for more than a year.
And I found the Oakland University Unified.
School District, where schools were closed for 14 or 15 months.
And it was one of the longest lockdowns in the country.
So I'm prowling around online, which is what I do.