'Best Year Ever', Say Nerdy Seniors

SANDPOINT, ID - Local youths Gilbert Lowell and Lewis Skolnick are crediting COVID-19 for making 2020 their best high school year ever. Both young men claim that their final two months in the public education system have been their most productive educationally, as well as socially. The teens have been using their extra free time not wasted by sitting in a classroom to prepare for their freshman experience at Adams College this fall.

“These last few months I've learned more than I have since fifth grade. My high school teachers always discouraged my planned senior project on nuclear fission reactors, saying that if they couldn’t understand it then no one else would," states Lowell. "They had me repeat my third grade project instead, the one about painting rainbows and racially integrating Sandpoint for more diversity. Now without their guidance, I was able to complete my reactor plans and earned an internship with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the summer!”

“Without having to attend high school, Gilbert and myself no longer have to endure the wrath of the jocks," said Skolnick. "No more being stuffed in garbage cans or dunked in toilets. Sure, losing prom was a big deal I guess. I had a girl I was going to ask to go, and if she turned me down then Gilbert and I were going to go together. If this lockdown continues, we might even avoid wedgies at graduation!”

Both young men are looking forward to moving on to college. They hope to find more tolerance for smart kids and less harassment from the jocks. Both expect a marked uptick in dating opportunities as plan are unveiled for the new Nambla Nambla Nambla (Tri-Nam) fraternity that they have chartered at Adams College.