COVID-19

A student began to read the email once the notification sounded. His eyes widened as he knew the next time he would see his friends, he would see their faces for the first time in years. On February 18th at 5:00 p.m. MST, the mask mandate for public spaces and schools was dropped in Boulder County and the Saint Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD). The mask mandate has been on and off within the...

Masks are a sensitive topic around America and are affecting Colorado residents especially hard. The wide mix of views on masks and general COVID precautions range and is an issue among counties in the front range and Denver. Boulder County is the first county to enforce mask mandates while larger counties like Weld and Larimer don’t have any mask requirements. 25 of 30 of the largest counties...

Throughout the last year, students and staff have been in and out of the classroom. Students and staff were online until October, when the Saint Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD) introduced hybrid learning. Hybrid learning is when one group of students is online while the other is in person. Then came December when students and staff were back to fully online learning. For the two and a half months...

Virtual learning has definitely taken over with COVID-19 being present this last year. Much has happened since COVID-19 came around. Something that happened is the amount of kids failing or struggling in classes. Insidehighered.com has said that between about 20-70% of students have failed classes between 2019 and 2020. With a big number of students failing there has also been a lot of students' having...

Experiencing Spring Break in a Pandemic COVID-19 also known as the coronavirus, has taken a toll on everyone. Everyone has been stuck inside for almost a year now with things changing all the time. Schools closed down, grocery stores were out of stock from the panic of people taking shelter, and almost everything to do with human contact is not allowed to happen because of the exposure from other...