Lindsey Johnson isn’t quite finished with high school yet. The Lassiter senior has two more final exams to take, and they’re no slouches: Micro- and macroeconomics.
Like others in the Class of 2020, she’s experiencing the surreal feeling of not being able to graduate in a commencement exercise, but she remains hopeful that can happen at a later time.
The planned celebrations also included a family-and-friends party with fellow classmates at her neighborhood’s clubhouse.
“My dad has promised we’ll make up for this somehow,” said Johnson.
That’s been called off, but she’s crossing her fingers Cobb County School District officials can carry out possible plans for postponed graduation ceremonies.
“I still have hope we can have some traditional events later in the summer,” she said.
She said she’s seen a few friends since schools closed for in-person classes in mid-March, but at a distance, when going out on walks in her neighborhood, and online.
“Group Face Time is great!” she said.
“The hardest time was at the beginning, because I was thinking about some of the people that I would see every day, but didn’t really know outside of school. You wish perhaps you had spent some more time with them.”
Johnson was very active in a big school, far beyond the classroom. She was a member of Lassiter’s girls state swimming championship team this year, racing in the finals in an individual freestyle event and two relays, and also played lacrosse.
Finishing some substantial classes online took some work, she admitted, and said what she missed above all was in-person contact with teachers.
“AP classes [Advanced Placement] are really different online,” Johnson said. Instead of going over notes daily, as in the classroom, teachers assigned students to reach certain goals.
Before the doors shuttered, Johnson availed herself of the AP Capstone and other advance curriculum as she prepares to study business at Georgia Tech.
She’s unsure of exactly what she wants to do careerwise, but is grateful for having had “an amazing time at Lassiter.”
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