COVID took over their high school experience. They want senior year to be different
![High school seniors Iksha Subba of Dallas; Nathan Ferguson of Nashville, Tenn.; Twyla Colburn of Portland, Ore.; Omar Abdellall of East Stroudsburg, Pa.; and Julia Perez of Omaha, Neb.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/10/12/covidhsseniors-promo_wide-9afa92d94493070c563834990758878c1bbb9064.jpg?s=600)
For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.
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