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Transition from Middle to High School with COVID-19

11/3/2020

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by: Adrianna Uccello and Elma Huzejrovic

The transition alone from middle school to high school can be difficult to begin with, let alone without the help of COVID. In middle school, teachers are much more lenient with you and in my opinion, middle school was all around easier. When transitioning to the high school, you can see that things are much different.


Now, with COVID being brought into the picture, school life looks much different. With some students being full remote and others participating in the hybrid schedule, there is a broad variety of how students are participating in school this year.

Not only is school different in the aspect that there are full online students and also part-time in school students, there is also the added aspect of lunches, clubs, sports, etc. being altered.

Since we are seniors this year, we got to experience the “normal” school life for three years but as for freshman this is not the case.

We had the opportunity to interview freshman Racheal Chamberland, and ask her questions regarding her transition from middle to high school during COVID-19.

When asked about how things are different from the middle school to the high school, Rachael said, “It was much different than I expected…(the middle school) is much smaller, and you have all like your four class together, and in high school you have to walk around the whole building, but like I got the building pretty much… and in high school you’re pretty much expected to do everything on your own.”

Students are able to be much more independent now especially with COVID in the mix, because half of the student body is home everyday.


When asked about the move to high school with COVID affecting how class worked, Rachael said, On a google meet, sometimes it’s hard to focus”. Students are participating in either a fully remote learning plan or a hybrid learning plan, where half the students in the school are in school on Mondays and Tuesdays, no one is in school on Wednesdays, and the other half of the student body is in school on Thursdays and Fridays. 

With losing a day of school on Wednesdays, Rachael provided some pros and cons: “You lose a day of school, but it’s easier to catch up and meet with teachers because we have a lot more time.”

Students have Wednesdays at home to work on missing assignments, but it takes away from the in-class learning time students had before COVID. 


When giving advice to incoming freshman for next year, Rachael said “To not be nervous, I know it’s hard because I was so nervous, and  you always get nervous on the first day, but I really like the environment here, and I really enjoy being at WHS rather than middle school.” 

Students and teachers are still unaware of what the next couple months will look like due to COVID, but everyone is doing the best they can given the situation!


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