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Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-03T00:59:58Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Sept 1, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is my first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m gonna sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a seventy in a class before, so f*fties are umm... I don't know how to cope. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just end up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. HELL. NO. Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-03T00:59:31Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Sept 1, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is my first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a seventy in a class before, so f*fties are umm... I don't know how to cope. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just end up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. HELL. NO. Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Group 2

2024-12-03T00:43:44Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

In May 2048, public high schools in Toronto began to be torn down and were replaced by public housing as a result of the Schools-into-Housing Act, which attempted to mitigate the housing crisis. Since September of 2048, all high school students have been learning remotely, online.
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude ==
After decades of inflation, immigration, rising house prices and increased homelessness, a series of protests and riots erupted across Toronto and the GTA, beginning in the fall of 2046. These protests were primarily headed by university students and young adults who felt as though their wages were not livable, and as though they would never be able to afford a home. Initially, the protests were peaceful demonstrations outside of City Hall and other governmental buildings, but they soon escalated into riots after a controversial press conference given by Mayor Vanessa Byrd on September 14th, 2046 in which she stated that “people who work hard can make their living”, a statement which she would later claim was taken out of context. After this press conference, the protests turned violent, with many protesters blocking traffic and attempting to storm into City Hall. This in turn precipitated a significant police response, which resulted in several violent exchanges between both factions. Although no one was killed during the conflicts, many protesters reported injuries ranging from bruises to broken limbs. After six months of riots, Mayor Byrd resigned, but this did little to quell the insurrection. Meanwhile, the protests inspired similar movements in Vancouver and Montreal, the other two cities which were most affected by the housing crisis. These protests did not turn violent, possibly because their municipal governments did not espouse views similar to Byrd’s.

Shortly after Byrd’s resignation, Prime Minister Daniel Marsden announced that he would work closely with the Premiers of Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec to find an amenable solution to the housing crisis. Three months later, Marsden would propose the Home Buyer’s Rebate, a stimulus check of $1,000 per person over the age of 25 who did not own a home, but the idea was not warmly received by the Canadian population nor the Official Opposition. The protests, which had begun to die down, saw a sudden resurgence, leading once again to recurring clashes between protesters and police. Marsden faced internal pressure to resign, but he remained in office and publicly swore that he would find a solution to the housing crisis before he left office.

In early September 2047, nearly a year after the protests began, Marsden proposed Bill 325 SHA: The Schools-into-Housing Act, an idea credited to longtime virtual education proponent, Ontario Minister of Education Evelyn Chang. As explained via an [[interview with the ICBC]], this bill would see all public high schools in Toronto torn down and replaced with affordable, government subsidized housing; meanwhile, high school instruction would be provided virtually over the approved applications CanComm and Microsoft Classroom, which had been developed years prior precisely for online teaching. While teachers’ unions and organizations opposed Bill 325, the response from the general public and most other organizations was largely positive, with many parents agreeing with the sentiment that “our kids won’t lose anything by going to school online.” The municipal governments of Vancouver and Montreal would also laud the bill and begin lobbying for it as well. Teachers’ unions and organizations had initially planned to strike over the bill, but ultimately relented when it became apparent that public opinion would be against them. Finally, by the end of April 2048, Bill 325 was approved and work on tearing down Toronto’s high schools began.

== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools-into-Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the superior teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades when the Bill was first implemented, this figure has been constantly rising, reaching a 57% increase, which will continue according to data forecasts.

== Education ==
[[File:102554551-salle-de-classe-vide-rendu-3d.jpg|thumb|An empty classroom, photo taken in the summer of 2048, right before the school was torn down.]]
=== Impact on Teachers ===

In September 2047, when Bill 325 - SHA was first proposed, teacher unions were opposed to the suggested shift to virtual learning. Their main concern was lack of preparation and insufficient training. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) was the most vocal with their opposition, making statements that argued that the transition was too rushed, and that it would leave teachers unprepared unless proper training and resources were provided. Another concern the OSSTF cited was the negative impacts virtual learning would have on students, especially since data collected in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested a rise in mental health struggles due to the more isolated form of education. Despite their protests, the federal and provincial government went through with their plans.

In order to have an easier transition, the municipal government put in place a variety of support systems and outreach programs. The TDSB specifically offered a variety of free seminars and training sessions to better prepare teachers who needed the extra support. The voluntary surveys received as feedback for programs were largely positive, and many agreed that it was helpful, although there were still plenty of obstacles teachers faced at the start of the academic year. When Bill 325 went into effect in September 2048, the impact on Toronto's teachers was significant. The switch to a fully digital public education system reshaped the profession, especially when it came to pedagogical expectations. Teachers were forced to adapt to new methods of instruction, in addition to learning how to best manage their much larger classes. With the sudden closure of school buildings, educators were required to become proficient in various digital platforms and tools, such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom.

As a response to this new way of approaching classroom management, qualified teachers began to leave the profession, especially those nearing retirement. The shortage in teachers was a big concern for public school boards. The TDSB even brought back the Emergency Placements Persons (ERP) position, which had initially been introduced in 2020, and allowed unqualified individuals to act as substitute teachers in the event that a certified educator was unavailable. This also led to significant increases in class sizes. Without the constraints of physical classrooms, and because of the teacher shortages, the province opted to enroll larger numbers of students in each virtual session. This dramatic increase in student numbers (anywhere from 50-100) made it more difficult for educators to provide individualized attention and support to students. While teachers were actively going to workshops to make their classrooms more engaging by using a ludic approach, it was still difficult for teachers to accurately evaluate individual student needs.

The shift to virtual learning in high schools following their shutdown in the city of Toronto had a significant and lasting impact on teachers. The universities with the largest education programs were quick to implement a variety of new courses to help graduating secondary teachers, but many who were experienced in the field struggled to adapt. There are plenty of [[lesson plans]] from the time that showcase the attempts, or lack thereof, to create a positive learning experience for students. While the shift began as something teachers fought against, they had no choice but to accept in the face of the housing crisis, and many ultimately thrived in their new educational reality. Virtual secondary classrooms shaped the education landscape, and would not just affect teachers, but students as well.

=== Impact on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Images Used ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Group 2

2024-12-03T00:43:28Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Teachers */

In May 2048, public high schools in Toronto began to be torn down and were replaced by public housing as a result of the Schools-into-Housing Act, which attempted to mitigate the housing crisis. Since September of 2048, all high school students have been learning remotely, online.
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude ==
After decades of inflation, immigration, rising house prices and increased homelessness, a series of protests and riots erupted across Toronto and the GTA, beginning in the fall of 2046. These protests were primarily headed by university students and young adults who felt as though their wages were not livable, and as though they would never be able to afford a home. Initially, the protests were peaceful demonstrations outside of City Hall and other governmental buildings, but they soon escalated into riots after a controversial press conference given by Mayor Vanessa Byrd on September 14th, 2046 in which she stated that “people who work hard can make their living”, a statement which she would later claim was taken out of context. After this press conference, the protests turned violent, with many protesters blocking traffic and attempting to storm into City Hall. This in turn precipitated a significant police response, which resulted in several violent exchanges between both factions. Although no one was killed during the conflicts, many protesters reported injuries ranging from bruises to broken limbs. After six months of riots, Mayor Byrd resigned, but this did little to quell the insurrection. Meanwhile, the protests inspired similar movements in Vancouver and Montreal, the other two cities which were most affected by the housing crisis. These protests did not turn violent, possibly because their municipal governments did not espouse views similar to Byrd’s.

Shortly after Byrd’s resignation, Prime Minister Daniel Marsden announced that he would work closely with the Premiers of Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec to find an amenable solution to the housing crisis. Three months later, Marsden would propose the Home Buyer’s Rebate, a stimulus check of $1,000 per person over the age of 25 who did not own a home, but the idea was not warmly received by the Canadian population nor the Official Opposition. The protests, which had begun to die down, saw a sudden resurgence, leading once again to recurring clashes between protesters and police. Marsden faced internal pressure to resign, but he remained in office and publicly swore that he would find a solution to the housing crisis before he left office.

In early September 2047, nearly a year after the protests began, Marsden proposed Bill 325 SHA: The Schools-into-Housing Act, an idea credited to longtime virtual education proponent, Ontario Minister of Education Evelyn Chang. As explained via an [[interview with the ICBC]], this bill would see all public high schools in Toronto torn down and replaced with affordable, government subsidized housing; meanwhile, high school instruction would be provided virtually over the approved applications CanComm and Microsoft Classroom, which had been developed years prior precisely for online teaching. While teachers’ unions and organizations opposed Bill 325, the response from the general public and most other organizations was largely positive, with many parents agreeing with the sentiment that “our kids won’t lose anything by going to school online.” The municipal governments of Vancouver and Montreal would also laud the bill and begin lobbying for it as well. Teachers’ unions and organizations had initially planned to strike over the bill, but ultimately relented when it became apparent that public opinion would be against them. Finally, by the end of April 2048, Bill 325 was approved and work on tearing down Toronto’s high schools began.

== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools-into-Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the superior teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades when the Bill was first implemented, this figure has been constantly rising, reaching a 57% increase, which will continue according to data forecasts.

== Education ==
[[File:102554551-salle-de-classe-vide-rendu-3d.jpg|thumb|An empty classroom, photo taken in the summer of 2048, right before the school was torn down.]]
=== Impact on Teachers ===

In September 2047, when Bill 325 - SHA was first proposed, teacher unions were opposed to the suggested shift to virtual learning. Their main concern was lack of preparation and insufficient training. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) was the most vocal with their opposition, making statements that argued that the transition was too rushed, and that it would leave teachers unprepared unless proper training and resources were provided. Another concern the OSSTF cited was the negative impacts virtual learning would have on students, especially since data collected in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested a rise in mental health struggles due to the more isolated form of education. Despite their protests, the federal and provincial government went through with their plans.

In order to have an easier transition, the municipal government put in place a variety of support systems and outreach programs. The TDSB specifically offered a variety of free seminars and training sessions to better prepare teachers who needed the extra support. The voluntary surveys received as feedback for programs were largely positive, and many agreed that it was helpful, although there were still plenty of obstacles teachers faced at the start of the academic year. When Bill 325 went into effect in September 2048, the impact on Toronto's teachers was significant. The switch to a fully digital public education system reshaped the profession, especially when it came to pedagogical expectations. Teachers were forced to adapt to new methods of instruction, in addition to learning how to best manage their much larger classes. With the sudden closure of school buildings, educators were required to become proficient in various digital platforms and tools, such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom.

As a response to this new way of approaching classroom management, qualified teachers began to leave the profession, especially those nearing retirement. The shortage in teachers was a big concern for public school boards. The TDSB even brought back the Emergency Placements Persons (ERP) position, which had initially been introduced in 2020, and allowed unqualified individuals to act as substitute teachers in the event that a certified educator was unavailable. This also led to significant increases in class sizes. Without the constraints of physical classrooms, and because of the teacher shortages, the province opted to enroll larger numbers of students in each virtual session. This dramatic increase in student numbers (anywhere from 50-100) made it more difficult for educators to provide individualized attention and support to students. While teachers were actively going to workshops to make their classrooms more engaging by using a ludic approach, it was still difficult for teachers to accurately evaluate individual student needs.

The shift to virtual learning in high schools following their shutdown in the city of Toronto had a significant and lasting impact on teachers. The universities with the largest education programs were quick to implement a variety of new courses to help graduating secondary teachers, but many who were experienced in the field struggled to adapt. There are plenty of [[lesson plans]] from the time that showcase the attempts, or lack thereof, to create a positive learning experience for students. While the shift began as something teachers fought against, they had no choice but to accept in the face of the housing crisis, and many ultimately thrived in their new educational reality. Virtual secondary classrooms shaped the education landscape, and would not just affect teachers, but students as well.

=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Images Used ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Group 2

2024-12-01T02:04:54Z

Sarah Shkiler:

In *MONTH* 2048, all public high schools in Toronto were torn down replaced public housing as a result of the implementation of the Schools into Housing Act, which attempted to mitigate the housing crisis. Since September of 2048, all high school students have been learning remotely, online.
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==
== Works Cited ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Group 2

2024-12-01T02:04:40Z

Sarah Shkiler:

In *MONTH* 2048, all public high schools in Toronto were torn down replaced public housing as a result of the implementation of the Schools into Housing Act, which attempted to mitigate the housing crisis. Since September of 2048, all high school students have been learning remotely, online.
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|=1.5|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==
== Works Cited ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Group 2

2024-12-01T01:57:37Z

Sarah Shkiler:

Group 2

2024-12-01T01:56:52Z

Sarah Shkiler:

In *MONTH* 2048, all public high schools were torn down replaced public housing as a result of the implementation of the Schools into Housing Act, which attempted to mitigate the housing crisis. Since September of 2048, all high school students have been learning online, remotely.
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==
== Works Cited ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:16:57Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 6, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a seventy in a class before, so f*fties are umm... I don't know how to cope. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just end up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. HELL. NO. Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:16:05Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 6, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so f*fties are umm... I don't know how to cope. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. HELL. NO. Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:15:06Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* June 24th, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. HELL. NO. Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:14:35Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* June 24th, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Anyway, Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:14:03Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* April 26, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone. WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:13:41Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 14, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ... ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:13:31Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 14, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ...ha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:11:40Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 14, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s....... haha ...... :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Group 2

2024-12-01T01:10:40Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Works Cited */

Our summary will go here
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

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After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for high school students lead to a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==
== Works Cited ==
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Nov 30 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com

Group 2

2024-12-01T01:10:01Z

Sarah Shkiler:

Group 2

2024-12-01T01:06:33Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:04:54Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* June 24th, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. AAAAAAAH! Ms. Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing English. I’m okay with English, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think it's partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year! We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this Summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get high school over with, and get into university in person lalalalala. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like those damn private school kids and people from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:01:25Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* April 26, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, who can’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little (or a lot) strange. It’s not like the school can ''force'' students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T01:00:00Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* March 30, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until September. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! Sad.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:59:13Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* March 26, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a "buddy" learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but this one sort of did. I would hate to seem ''more'' weird than I already feel at the moment! So for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student and attend online school from each other's house. People have already been doing it, so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that, now, the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:57:09Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 14, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics, so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. And I'm one of those students so you know I signed it! I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April, but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the reaaally good schools that get all the practice space), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:55:49Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Feb 6, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our English teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a French teacher, and I’m not ''failing'' math, but I'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70 in a class before, so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring, so I just en up scrolling through short vids for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in history class (Sry again Mr. Dern) and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so no one noticed (Except Tina, she messaged me). I know it's bad to skip class, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:52:59Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 26th, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Ok so maybe not progress because I still have not been added to the group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:52:26Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 18th, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well! We got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:52:01Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 12th, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class (Sorry Mr. Dern!) That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did some reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest of the play to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:50:54Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 8th, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can't let the group down!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:50:37Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 8th, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! hehe

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:49:55Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Jan 1, 2049 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 2, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided it's time to get closer with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina. We did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Saskatchewan next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves, if I don’t do something STAT. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:47:56Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Dec 12, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. Our French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will ''not'' catch me in front of this God forsaken computer!! (Though you will certainly catch me on my phone). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:46:17Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Oct 23, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry Journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in history class, I get so tired that my head starts feeling so heavy and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr. Dern goes on about trench foot. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. In fact, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good though, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). She almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:43:51Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Sept 1, 2048 */

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she had experienced "the lonely mess that is online school" during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna type on a computer like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks great on my nightstand though.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down, I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with A LOT of homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. Honestly, I’m okay with the change. The whole housing crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school, and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND. I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least five people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. They must have enrolled MONTHS ago because now all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in History class, I get so tired and my head starts feeling so heavy, and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr Dern. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. I swear, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, though, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). Honestly, she almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:39:24Z

Sarah Shkiler:

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Recovered file]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she experienced « the lonely mess that is online school » during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna write my feelings out on a word doc like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks fire on my nightstand tho.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with REALLY bad homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. I’m okay with it, now. Honestly, the whole homeless crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND, so I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least 5 people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. Their parents must have enrolled them MONTHS ago because now, all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in History class, I get so tired and my head starts feeling so heavy, and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr Dern. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. I swear, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, though, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). Honestly, she almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:38:34Z

Sarah Shkiler:

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot_2024-11-29_at_7.27.47_PM.png|thumb]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she experienced « the lonely mess that is online school » during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna write my feelings out on a word doc like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks fire on my nightstand tho.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with REALLY bad homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. I’m okay with it, now. Honestly, the whole homeless crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND, so I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least 5 people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. Their parents must have enrolled them MONTHS ago because now, all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in History class, I get so tired and my head starts feeling so heavy, and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr Dern. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. I swear, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, though, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). Honestly, she almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:37:37Z

Sarah Shkiler:

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.26.27 PM.png|thumb]]
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she experienced « the lonely mess that is online school » during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna write my feelings out on a word doc like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks fire on my nightstand tho.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with REALLY bad homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. I’m okay with it, now. Honestly, the whole homeless crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND, so I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least 5 people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. Their parents must have enrolled them MONTHS ago because now, all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in History class, I get so tired and my head starts feeling so heavy, and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr Dern. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. I swear, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, though, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). Honestly, she almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Found Journal from 2048

2024-12-01T00:37:08Z

Sarah Shkiler: Created page with "The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049. File:Screenshot_2024-11-29_at_7.26.27_PM.png ====Sept 1, 2048==== Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she experienced « the lonely mess that is online s..."

The following texts are entries from a recovered file of a grade 10 student's journal spanning from September 2048 to June 2049.

File:Screenshot_2024-11-29_at_7.26.27_PM.png
====Sept 1, 2048====
Tomorrow is the first day of grade 10. Kinda nervous…JUST KIDDING! It’s fully online, so I don't have to worry about who I’m going to sit with in class or at lunch, or my outfit, or whatever! Mom is worried for me because she experienced « the lonely mess that is online school » during the 2020 pandemic and thinks I’m gonna lose it or something. She told me I should keep a journal to express my thoughts and feelings. She gave me this really pretty blue and gold notebook, and I appreciate the gesture, but writing by hand tires me out, so I’m just gonna write my feelings out on a word doc like a normal person from this day and age. The notebook looks fire on my nightstand tho.

Anyways… first day of online classes. When we first found out that our school was shutting down I was pretty surprised. I was under the impression that only schools in the areas with REALLY bad homelessness would get shut down, but I guess everywhere’s really bad right now. I’m okay with it, now. Honestly, the whole homeless crisis here is really scary and its kind of comforting to know that if things don't go well down the road for me or my family, we won't have to live in the literal streets. And, honestly, online school might not be so bad. I normally have to wake up at 7 to take the bus to my school and there are some people in my grade that I CAN’T STAND, so I’m not gonna miss hanging out in the hallways with them. I heard that at least 5 people from my grade are transferring to private school next year. Their parents must have enrolled them MONTHS ago because now, all private schools are at capacity for next year… It must be nice being RICH.

====Oct 23, 2048====
Sorry journal God, I’ve been too lazy to write. Online school is mediocre as hell. Yeah there's the pro of being able to wake up at 8:50 every morning, and not having to worry about where I’m sitting at lunch and stuff, but it is maybe the most boring thing I have ever experienced in my life. Sometimes, when I’m sitting in History class, I get so tired and my head starts feeling so heavy, and I worry I might fall asleep on camera. It's just so boring to sit there while Mr Dern. And I’m someone that LIKES history. I swear everyone else in that class is either doing other assignments or messaging friends. I swear, the other day a kid just left his chair for the whole period and Dern didn't notice because he never looks at the video call page during the lesson. Even if he did, there are like 40 people in the class, so our faces must be super small.

There are a couple classes that are still good, like drama and science. Drama’s funny because we use virtual backgrounds and we just film videos like normal. Our science teacher, though, is amazing. She has so much energy and makes us participate in her lessons (in a good way!). Honestly, she almost makes me like science. All my other classes are… mid. Definitely worse than in person, but also not by thaaaat much. I get really bored, though, and usually end up opening my phone and scrolling through silly videos. I can’t help it!!

====Dec 12, 2048====
Two more weeks until winter break!! Online school has been whatever. One of the French teachers quit, so until they find a new one, we’ll get a free period. We’ll have to do our projects after the break and, I really hope we don't have group work. I don’t really have any close friends in the school and I’m scared that it’ll be awkward as hell. I’m stoked for the winter break though. You will not catch me in front of this god forsaken computer!! (you will catch me on my phone, though). I have big plans for this winter break. Alex, my one-year-older-bestie, and I are gonna hang out most days and we made a little bucket list for the break! We’re gonna go skating, decorate gingerbread cookies, go window shopping, have a movie night, repaint my bedroom a classy shade of eggshell, and do a whole bunch of sitting around. Yay!!!

====Jan 1, 2049====
New school year, new me!!! I’ve decided I’m going to make friends with some people in my grade. Preferably Nick or Tina, we did a lot of group work together last year and they aren't so bad. Honestly, this whole thing is because Alex told me last week that her family is moving to some small town in Manitoba next month. She said she’ll miss me and her other friends, but thinks she's really lucky that her parents were able to find work outside of the city. I’m happy for her prosperous future and all, but I will literally be friendless when she leaves if I don’t do something. I just don’t love putting myself out there and it feels even harder now that everythings done on group chats. I wish I could just like… stand next to someone and get invited to hang out with them that way.

====Jan 8th, 2049====
We got assigned our final projects for the semester. Exams are basically dead because all our teachers think we’re just gonna cheat through them. Honestly… real. I got put in a group with Nick AND Tina for our English project. We have to film a video on some play I didn’t read, but I WILL!! Can’t let down the group now!

====Jan 12th, 2049====
I read the play during history class. That class has been EXTRA boring since we moved online, so I just turned the volume down and did my reading. OK I read the first half and then I had Chat GPT explain the rest to me… I’m in a time crunch! We’re going to film our video at Tina’s house over the weekend. I’m gonna pick my outfit now. Hehehe.

====Jan 18th, 2049====
We filmed the video at Tina’s house. It went pretty well, we got everything done and Nick volunteered to edit all of it which was nice of him. They mentioned that a few of the people in our class are going skating next weekend and they invited me. They said they would add me to the group chat. Progress!!

====Jan 26th, 2049====
Still no group chat…
I messaged Nick and he said the rest of the group thought it might be weird. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just liked his message.

====Feb 6, 2049====
I’m kinda over this semester. Our english teacher went on leave, we still don’t have a french teacher, and I’m not failing math, but i'm pretty darn close! I’ve never gotten lower than a 70, in a class before so I’m bummed out. It's just so hard to focus. Class is also sooo boring. I just scroll through TikTok for most of it. The other day, I just left my camera on in class and went on a walk for half an hour. I was back before the end of the class, so I don't think anyone noticed. I know that's bad, but it was a #mentalhealthbreak.

====Feb 14, 2049====
Happy Valentine’s Day… TO NO ONE. I miss elementary school when we used to hand out valentines. Now I just get handed out F’s haha :(

Tina DMed me and asked me to sign a petition against the unfair distribution of practice spaces for sports teams in the Toronto board. Our school doesn't rank very high in athletics so we got allocated zero practice spaces and students are really upset. I signed it. I was looking forward to trying out for the soccer team in April but it sounds like it's gonna be canceled along with everything else. I’m pretty sure everybody will sign it (except for the rlly good schools), but I don’t know if it will bring any change.

====March 26, 2049====
Okay so apparently they’re putting together a «buddy» learning system to encourage interaction between students. My brother says they're scared we’re all gonna become "anti-social idiots". His comments don't usually phase me, but I would hate to seem more weird than I already feel at the moment… so for this whole "buddy" system, you can pair up with a student to do online learning from one student’s house. Students have already been doing it so it's not a crazy idea. The only difference is that now the school is highly encouraging it. They're letting students pick their buddies and then the leftovers get grouped up by the teachers. Let's go team leftovers, I guess.

====March 30, 2049====
The petition worked! It got thousands of signatures and even some media coverage. It's already pretty late in the year though, so the board isn’t going to change the way practice spaces are distributed until september. Sounds like some nonsense to me. My brother says that it's a conspiracy and there's probably someone on the board that will benefit more if the Toronto teams place provincially. I don’t know if high school sports are that serious, but regardless of whether someones personally benefiting, I’m personally losing! It's unfair.

Also, Tina asked me to be her buddy. I think she’s beefing with Nick and them… Great for me though!

====April 26, 2048====
All hail the buddy system!! I don’t want to speak too soon, but I’ve been going over to Tina’s house for our classes and we’ve hit it off! We’re lucky we live in the same area. Some students have to commute a pretty long way to study with their friends, but I guess it's worth it. Some people are complaining online that the buddy system is inequitable because not all students can go to other people's houses or host. There are also kids like Nathan, whocan’t seem to hold buddy because they’re a little weird. It’s not like the school can FORCE students to go to other students’ homes, so this whole thing definitely isn’t perfect. I don’t know how the school is going to deal with that, but I PERSONALLY prefer learning this way. I like that there's someone to talk to between classes, I’m less likely to fall asleep in class when there’s someone next to me, and group work is less dull. Also, I’m finally real friends with someone in my grade. I don't see why we should learn alone… WE’RE NOT IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

====June 24th, 2048====
Been away. I locked in for school when I realized the only thing worse than online school is online SUMMER school. Ms Lao reminded us that in April, since a third of the class was failing History. I’m okay with History, but I fear the summer school thing applies to subjects like math too…

Spring finals definitely felt easier than the winter ones. I think its partially because I studied harder for them and partially because school is trying to boost everyone's grades, by giving us some wins. Also Tina and I are besties now and we’ve made more friends in our year. We probably won't be class buddies for school next year because there is no way I'm taking math or physics, but we’ll hang out after class (and this summer)! This year kind of felt like a blip, like it happened by accident, and honestly I don’t remember what I did for half of it. I think next year will be slightly better, but I’m not getting my hopes up, especially since everyone says that school gets harder in grade 11 and 12. I’m just hoping I can push through it, get highschool over with, and get into university. I’m really scared I won't get into university though since I’m competing with people that got actual educations like damn private school kids and students from outside the city. BUT I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW SO I’M NOT GOING TO.

Group 2

2024-12-01T00:30:04Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Our summary will go here
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a [[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for highschool students created a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==

Group 2

2024-12-01T00:29:26Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Our summary will go here
[[File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp|thumb|Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325 SHA]]

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==

Bill 325 SHA - The Schools into Housing Act was seen as a way to mitigate the rising homelessness crisis within Ontario, especially since the increase in the population was straining government systems. The Canadian government’s plan to implement this bill was first to survey the areas to determine which schools would be torn down to build affordable housing. The surveying of areas took the most time as it required considering certain factors, such as area density (How many people are living within a specific area), spatial space (If there was enough space to build), and impacts on the community. The plan initially proposed that some schools be torn down and converted into housing; however, from the surveyor’s data, the reports indicated that the area density was too high and tearing down some schools would not mitigate the homelessness crisis. There were too many homeless individuals in an area, and surveyors concluded that tearing down some public high schools would not decrease that number. As such, the Bill was modified to include all public high schools to be torn down as it would offer the solution to the ever-growing issue and accommodate the majority of homeless individuals.

Moreover, according to surveyors’ reports, schools took roughly 45% of spatial space in relation to the overall space within a specific community area, with 35% being high schools and 10% being elementary schools. The other percentages were residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. By tearing down high schools and building housing, 35% of the space that they occupied would increase residential building capacity to accommodate the high increase of homeless individuals. Reports also indicated that one school’s spatial space can accommodate 15% of the homeless individuals living within the community. With all the schools torn down, it can house 100% of these individuals and even have some space to accommodate others. The report on spatial space was one of the deciding factors by which the Canadian Parliament decided to push the Bill to pass and implement it first within Ontario.

[[File:Teacher Protest.jpg|thumb]]
After the Canadian Parliament passed Bill 325 - SHA, the next step was to notify the community and the students on how to proceed with education. Before tearing down schools, the government held various programs and outreach to inform the community on how teaching and student learning would occur in homes. Given that resources were already created for at-home learning due to the pandemic in the year 2020, the transition from in-person learning to at-home learning proved to be smoother than expected. However, some argue it could have been a smoother transition as teachers needed proper training in teaching students using this method. [[Protests erupted both from teacher unions and other community members against the Bill.]] However, despite their protests, the Bill moved forward, and both teachers and community members were forced to adjust to these changes. As a result, private school enrollment reached its capacity as these schools were exempted from the bill since the government did not publicly fund them.

Once the communities were informed of how education would proceed, schools were torn down to begin building new housing. The projected time to tear down and build these buildings is 15 years. However, Parliament urged that the tearing down and building must be prioritized and take less time if possible. As such, this urgency helped slightly with the economy as construction companies needed more individuals, thus creating jobs. Although there was an increase in the saturation of construction workers, the funding these companies received could not adjust the pay these workers should have been paid. However, because the homelessness crisis heavily strained the Canadian economy, individuals took these construction jobs because they provided some income for them. With the increased labour, the projected timeline was reduced from 15 to 7 years. As the construction began, the public high schools in downtown Toronto were torn down first. They would then start tearing down schools as the projects in downtown Toronto were completed, working their way towards the suburbs and then further schools away from the cities until they were all converted into affordable housing.

A few months before the demolition of public high schools, the Boards of Education in Ontario implemented a revised version of at-home learning based on the plans for the 2020 COVID-19 years. This revised educational method introduced what is now called “Virtual High School Learning.” As the name suggests, this schooling method allows high school students to learn from home using their electronic devices and online platforms such as CanComm and Microsoft Classroom. However, with the advancement of technology, many have indicated that virtual reality would soon be an option. The Canadian Parliament, in accordance with the Ministry of Education, has argued that virtual learning is the most effective method to teach high school students. However, critics have had their fair share of opinions regarding this method, especially concerning students’ mental health and the effects on teachers.
[[File:A school being torn down.jpg|thumb]]
As Virtual High School Learning was implemented, students and teachers had difficulties adjusting to this method of learning and teaching, which were reflected in the student assessments. Reports from various school boards indicated that student grades fell by 30% compared to when they were in-person. With this decline, school boards invested more into training teachers to better teach and support their students. This investment allowed teachers to receive the support and resources they desperately needed, consequently permitting them to find innovative and creative methods for teaching. With support, teachers could adapt and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the restrictions of virtual learning leading to an increase in students' grades. Over time, reports later indicated that students did better through virtual learning compared to in-person learning.

Despite the criticisms after the Bill was passed, virtual learning became the better teaching and learning method. Not only were teachers better supported, students also excelled in their academics because of the support their teachers received, allowing for more interactive teaching styles and methods. Furthermore, reports have indicated that homeless individuals and low-income families benefitted from virtual learning as, through this method, parents were able to be more involved with their children and their education. As parents became more involved, students felt supported and guided, resulting in better grades and the overall quality of their work. Despite seeing a 30% decrease in student grades at the beginning of this change when the Bill was passed, it has been constantly rising, with a 57% increase, which will continue according to recent reports.

== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
The shift to online school for high school students happened quickly and with very few technological issues, as schools had already begun incorporating online learning for the past few decades. High school students, having grown up in an age of technological advancement had become accustomed to using online learning platforms; however, the switch to completely full-time online learning created new barriers for learning that teachers, especially those that had spent a majority of their career in in person classes, were not prepared to address. Thus, the first couple of years of the implementation of online school were defined by a string of trial and error in the education system.

During the first few years of the switch to online school, engaging students was a major issue. Students reported being more easily distracted when learning online. Although online learning platforms took measures to prevent distractions like browser locking technology on learning devices ; other personal electronic devices could not be controlled. Furthermore, the increase in class sizes due to the shortage in teachers made monitoring student attention a difficult task. In a[[Found Journal from 2048]], a grade 10 student recounts her classmate leaving their workspace for an entire period and going unnoticed by her teacher. As a result of lack of engagement, academic performance in Toronto’s public board decreased drastically. As private schools were unaffected by the shift, the gap in university enrolment between students from the public board and students from the private board increased and as did failure rates for first year university students from Toronto.

However, within a couple of years, teachers adapted and created ways to overcome the barrier of online learning. New curriculum was created, and new teachers were trained within the context of full-time online school. Students too, adapted to the online format. Parents, having seen the success of Bill 325 SHA in reducing homelessness in the city, encouraged their children to accept the change and do the best they can to learn online. That being said, many parents, who could afford it, transferred their children into private schools. Enrolling into these schools, thus, had become and remained even more competitive and expensive.

Another impact on student life was the lack of opportunities for student socialization, which is integral to their development. During the start of the shift to online schooling, the board attempted to mitigate the expected negative social effects of online school by allowing students to attend online class sessions in a “buddy system”. This reduced feelings of isolation for some; while, others could not host others or go to other people's homes during school hours for various reasons like lack of transportation, lack of space, social difficulties, and conflicts in the family.

While extra curricular activities were not canceled amidst the shift to online learning, the shortage in teachers and the lack of common space significantly reduced the number of clubs and sports teams in Toronto’s public board. As the school’s tracks and fields were replaced by housing, finding terrain in which student athletes could practice became difficult. In 2048, when the switch had finally been implemented school sports teams were allotted training spaces in community center fields and parks based on performance, meaning weaker performing schools would not have anywhere to practice. This competitive system strongly upset students, and was abandoned from September 2049, forward. Currently, practice spaces are distributed evenly between all schools, even if that only allows for some teams to practice twice a week. Some clubs, like creative writing, debate teams, chess clubs, and others, that could be held online and in different locations survived the shift, although there remained a strong preference for in person activities; however, similarly to sports teams, finding a location to host these events was a problem, especially during colder months.

The shift to online learning for highschool students created a large increase in social activity after school hours for many students. Students congregate in large groups in parking lots, malls, parkettes, cafes and at each other’s homes. Furthermore, as these congregations were done so privately, some students were completely excluded, a consequence that could not be regulated by the school board. During the colder months of the winter, students were physically unable to spend time together in large groups, and these periods are often marked by reports of poor mental health by students.

== Other Impacts ==

Group 2

2024-12-01T00:27:29Z

Sarah Shkiler:

File:Toronto High School Torn Down.webp

2024-12-01T00:26:57Z

Sarah Shkiler:

Toronto high school torn down as a result of Bill 325

Found Journal Entries from a Student in 2048

2024-11-30T00:33:54Z

Sarah Shkiler: Created page with "Found file of student's journal entry"

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Found file of student's journal entry]]

Group 2

2024-11-30T00:33:43Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Our summary will go here

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==
== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===

[[Found Journal Entries from a Student in 2048]]

== Other Impacts ==

Student's journal

2024-11-30T00:31:27Z

Sarah Shkiler: Created page with " Found file of student's journal entry"

[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Found file of student's journal entry]]

Group 2

2024-11-30T00:30:10Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Our summary will go here

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==
== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===

[[student's journal]]

== Other Impacts ==

Group 2

2024-11-30T00:29:04Z

Sarah Shkiler: /* Impacts on Students */

Our summary will go here

== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==
== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
[[File:Screenshot 2024-11-29 at 7.27.47 PM.png|thumb|Found file of student's journal entry]]

== Other Impacts ==

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Sarah Shkiler: Created page with "Our summary will go here == Prelude/Background == == Implementation == == Education == === Impacts on Teachers === === Impacts on Students === == Other Impacts =="

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== Prelude/Background ==
== Implementation ==
== Education ==
=== Impacts on Teachers ===
=== Impacts on Students ===
== Other Impacts ==