As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home
As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home
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BROCKTON, Mass. — It was starting to feel like a normal seventh grade lunch at West Middle School. After several days of eerily quiet cafeteria reunions, the din from the cafeteria could be heard far down the hall. The plexiglass dividers that sectioned off the lunch tables into four socially distanced stations no longer intimidated the kids; they shouted across them — or chatted happily together in one of the quarters when teachers turned their backs.
Twelve-year-old Isabella Rogers sat at one of the tables, grateful for the noise (“I like playing the drums and I like being loud”) and happy to be reunited with two...