Alabama Is Packing Graduation Ceremonies and Overloading ICUs

Alex Kelley would have liked to go to prom. Or senior field day. Or at least a graduation ceremony. But the senior at the Montgomery Academy, a private K-12 school in Alabama’s capital city, began remote learning on Zoom in mid-March along with millions of other students throughout the country. Over the next several weeks of isolation, he and his classmates were stripped of the pomp and circumstance that usually accompany their rite of passage….