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DVUSD Letter to Parents Regarding 2020 Graduation

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Title (Dublin Core)

DVUSD Letter to Parents Regarding 2020 Graduation

Description (Dublin Core)

This letter is written by Dr. Curtis Finch, the Superintendent of Deer Valley Unified School District, one of the largest school districts in Arizona. The letter is addressed to the 2020 class of DVUSD high school graduates and their parents. Dr. Finch explains that graduation (which had already been postponed by a month) would need to be canceled due to new laws and policies. The letter ends with an encouraging note.
This letter says multiple things about the pandemic. First, many people believed the situation would get better. This is shown by attempting to delay graduation by one month when in reality, the increasing cases due to the pandemic would continue much longer. Another message shown by the letter is that school staff, parents, and graduates were working to attempt to save milestones such as graduation in multiple different ways, but were not able to.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 25, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Deer Valley Unified School District

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Ashlee Harper

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Letter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Social Distance
English Events
English Conflict

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

2020 graduate
lost graduation
class of 2022

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

2020 graduate
lost graduation
class of 2022

Collection (Dublin Core)

Lost Graduations

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/23/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/03/2022
05/25/2022
08/02/2022

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This item was submitted on March 23, 2022 by Ashlee Harper using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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