We don’t need to tell you how strange back-to-school was this year. The all-virtual return to school is just the latest in a series of unusual new realities we must face in a post-COVID-world. So when we put out the call on our Facebook page for residents to share their back-to-school photos, we were not confident that it would receive the same positive response that it has gotten in the past.
Boy, were we wrong. The post yielded 88 photos, which included 103 local students with some pretty awesome home-classroom setups. Some held adorable handmade signs and others posed in shirts saying things like “Class of 2030.” (Feel old yet?)
Check them out in the slideshow below, and to all our local students, “Congratulations on the start of a new school year!”
Posted by Christina Shaffer
Posted by Lynn Drobish Erskine
Posted by Dhanya Elias, "First Grade Howe Elementary"
Posted by Susan Richardson Uffelman, "My Senior"
Posted by Amy Shriver Logue
Posted by Sarah Lawson, "1st grade WES"
Posted by Heidi Tappe Nevala
Posted by Makhfuza Islomova
Posted by Katie Lamb Shaw, "7th grade MMS"
Posted by Emily Yeager, "7th grader at Jefferson - Maggie Offenbach"
Posted by Jena Robbins Schieb
Posted by Emily Bucher Renne
Posted by Tina Sellers Stasiowski
Posted by Christina Shaffer
Posted by Don Kulikowski, "Freshman"
Posted by Makhfuza Islomova
Posted by Jennifer Schroeter
Posted by Jennifer Schroeter
Posted by Christine Wittman, "First day of middle school! Mellon 💙💛"
Posted by Emily Bucher Renne
Posted by Maggie Bolgert Thomas, "4th grade"
Posted by Tina Sellers Stasiowski
Posted by Alyssa Owens, "WES"
Posted by Derek Tappe, "5th, 2nd, K"
Posted by Kim Lilja Camillo
Posted by Bridget Kiger Lee
Nick N Summer Owsley, "Second grade"
Posted by Jenny Lee, "Markham, 3rd grade"
Posted by Jenny Lee, "Mellon, 6th grade"
Posted by Maggie Bolgert Thomas, "8th grade"
Posted by Jennifer Lindquist Thompson
Posted by Laura Stauffer Walters, "10th grade! Took this in the cafeteria 😋"
Posted by Mary Klaber, "7th grade 😊"
Posted by Cindy Moreno Wood, "10th grade"
Posted by Diana DiBerardino, "4th Grade!"
Posted by Laura Teufel, "Back to school in Mt. Lebo. 😔"
Posted by Jessica Leigh, "3rd grade!"
Posted by Caryn Loehr, "3rd grade - WES"
Posted by Stephania Floulis, "Foster 5th grade. The dog is just as confused as the rest of us ✏️"
Posted by Jessica Moreno Soto, "4th and 6th grade"
Posted by Caryn Loehr, "11th grade"
Posted by Julie Lelevier, "Kindergarten!👑"
Posted by Megan Bedell Criswell, "Hoover 3rd grade!"
Posted by Diana DiBerardino, "9th Grade!"
Posted by Jodi Fetcko Kubit
Posted by Molly Dausch, "First grader at WES 💙"
Posted by Caryn Loehr, "8th grade Mellon"
Posted by Katie Lynn Hauser
Posted by Caryn Loehr, "10th grade"
Posted by Jenny Lee, "Mellon 7th grade"
