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Collected Item: “School Downfall”

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School Downfall

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

This is a screenshot of an email from FGCU. It informs the students of the governor's executive order for staying at home.

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I was a freshman at FGCU when COVID 19 first broke out. I just started my second semester and was thriving in all my classes. When the executive order came out the school sent an email that if you have a home you have to leave. My parents were not allowed to come help me because of where they worked, so I had to move out myself. I have a knee injury and no one would help me when I was struggling with moving my things. When I got home they switched all of our classes online, and I struggled a lot since I learn better in person than online. This was important to me because I got robbed of my freshman year at FGCU.

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The screenshot was an email from the FGCU VP.

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2020-04-01
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