Effective on Monday, March 16, all Ohio schools were closed, leaving much uncertainty and the need for rapid reorganization of our daily lives. The effects of the coronavirus outbreak in the US only intensified in the days and weeks following. However, as all organizations have done in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, IMPACT has responded to the crisis while aiming to preserve the program’s benefits for those who have invested much time, effort, and heart into it, namely our students.
We would like to applaud all involved with IMPACT for their perseverance. The incoming cohort, for example, was ready to take the ACT on the weekend of April 4th, but their test date was pushed to an uncertain later date. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to take it then,” says Westland HS IMPACT lead and Heritage Spanish teacher Mike Schwarten. “They’ve been troopers about it so far.”
Mr. Schwarten has the following words of encouragement for IMPACT students in these uncertain times: “Stay positive and focused on your future because, through hardship, strength is almost always found with the help of perseverance and determination. The work we do now will impact who you become in the next decade and on. It’s worth the struggle.”
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