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The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed High School Yearbook Traditions Across Kansas City

By Steve Kraske,

Published May 20, 2020 at 4:09 PM CDT

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Seniors from high school yearbook staff worked quickly to meet their deadline while capturing the major shift in the school year caused by the coronavirus. — High school yearbook staff worked quickly to provide their colleagues with a physical memento of a school year disrupted by the coronavirus.

This year's high school yearbooks won't have quite the same spring content as years passed, but they will be filled with memories of how the coronavirus disrupted 2020.

Kimball Gogel, yearbook co-head editor at Shawnee Mission East
Delaney Pierce, yearbook editor at Liberty North High School

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