Get Schooled Blog
Student voices: Processing a pandemic through poetry
Maddy Yoo is a sixth grader at Renfroe Middle School in Decatur.
I have never run student poetry on the AJC Get Schooled blog, but a pandemic calls for new rules.
Here is a poem by Maddy Yoo about the pandemic. It was sent to me by her teacher Holly Lanford. Yoo is in sixth grade at Renfroe Middle School in Decatur.
I am reproducing it via a PDF to retain the poem’s structure, which would not translate to newsprint. Click the arrows in the lower left of the PDF to enlarge to read.
About the Author
Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.
