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Abandoned Student Belongings

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Abandoned Student Belongings

Description (Dublin Core)

When the Princeton Joint Unified School District campuses unexpectedly closed on March 17, 2020, students were unable to collect personal belongings left in lockers and desks. As a school employee, I was tasked with collecting these items, placing them in plastic bags, and making them available for pick up.

From the well-kept lockers of eager freshmen to the trash-filled desks of fifth graders, removing student belongings felt like an invasion of privacy, looting personal spaces thought to be their own. These belonging bags contain much more than physical items, however. They contain the last sense of normalcy for these students, the final laughs shared before an extended summer vacation, and the unfounded security in knowing that tomorrow will be just another school day.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 12, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Alex Hinely

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Alex Hinely

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Emotion

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K-12
desk
locker
classroom
campus closure

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K12
desk
locker
classroom
campus closure

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12
Rural Voices

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/14/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/19/2020
06/22/2020
12/10/20
08/02/2022
10/11/2024

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This item was submitted on June 14, 2020 by Alex Hinely using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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