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When the members of the Franklin High School class of 2023 take center stage at Providence Park on Tuesday, it will cap off a singular high school experience.
Like so many other classes of 2023, their freshman year was cut short by COVID-19. They were sophomores during the pandemic’s height, their classmates black squares on screens. Junior year, they streamed back to the building full-time, masked and uncertain.
Senior year was supposed to mark a return to, if not normalcy, at least predictability, defined less by pandemic strictures than by the big milestones and tiny moments familiar...…When the members of the Franklin High School class of 2023 take center stage at Providence Park on Tuesday, it will cap off a singular high school experience.
Like so many other classes of 2023, their freshman year was cut short by COVID-19. They were sophomores during the pandemic’s height, their classmates black squares on screens. Junior year, they streamed back to the building full-time, masked and uncertain.
Senior year was supposed to mark a return to, if not normalcy, at least predictability, defined less by pandemic strictures than by the big milestones and tiny moments familiar...WW…