Local High School Students Get Used to QuaranTEENing 

On March 12, 2O20 the lives of students at NHS as well as other local high schools were changed. Many students assumed that they would not be going back to school for several days, or maybe a couple of weeks, and now are faced with the knowledge that they won't be going back until the fall or even later. 

There are many struggles teenagers face in and outside of school and much of these have been aided during quarantine while other problems have not been helped at all. Quarantine, stay-at-home-orders, and social distancing have introduced teens to a whole new way of life. 

Many teens agree that the hardest part of quarantine is not being able to see close friends and family.  NHS sophomore Celia Frawley, states that “ The hardest part of quarantine is not being able to see people” She also adds that “ It’s been really hard to not see your friends every day; after a while, you feel lonely without them.”

Other teens argue that the hardest part is having too much time on their hands. Abby Settle, a Franklin High School sophomore states that “ Quarantine has made me have too much time to overthink things about my life or just life in general.” 

Francesca Reardon, NHS sophomore, agrees with this, she says, “ The biggest troubles  I’ve been facing these past few months in quarantine include procrastinating doing my school work and not being able to see my friends regularly.” 

Since friends play such an important role in everyone's lives it has been really difficult to hang out regularly while social distancing. However there are many different ways people have been seeing their friends while maintaining the social distance rules. 

Celia Frawley has been video chatting with friends and family. “I have been socially distancing and haven't seen my friends or family. My family and I like to do zoom calls a couple of times a week and me and my friends have been texting and face timing a lot.” 

Ariana Folan, a freshman at Medfield High School said that “I have been dealing with it in multiple ways, I get bored and miss my friends a lot so I pass the time by face timing to do some homework. I also have been hanging out with my family and walking my dog Tanner.”

Quarantine has been a difficult time for all age groups but teens especially have been struggling with being inside during this time because they want to live their high school years to the best of their ability. With this stay at home order it has been difficult for everyone physically and mentally.