Home alone?

Some students choose room time over family time during pandemic

Sandy Jimenez Meza, reporter

Students have been spending more time at home because of Covid-19 — but are they spending more time with their families?

Due to Covid-19, people have been forced to stay at home to prevent the spread. People must limit the number of people they used to see on a daily. Families seem to spend more time together — more movie nights, meals together, conversations, game nights, and bike rides. But, in a poll of ten teens at Morton,  seven actually said they aren’t spending more time with family, and only three said they were with family more.

“I realized that most teens spend time in their room — away from their family.  They want to spend some alone time, “senior Sandy Jimenez Meza said.

Another students agrees.

“I don’t (spend more time with family).  I just spend time in my room vibin’.  I’m busy trying to come up with a dance for my audition and (with) school and my spiritual stuff (there) ain’t really no time to do anything else,”senior Kiera Espinosa said.

One teacher says though that the pandemic has brought her family a little bit closer.

“It’s just my husband and I in our household. I think we are learning more about each other, but I think it just goes with the nature of living together longer. We’ve both continued to work our regular hours during the pandemic so the extra time we have is now on the weekends,” anatomy teacher Ms. Del Real said.

And, closeness makes partners more sympathetic and understanding.

“I think there are less arguments because we’ve been able to communicate more and accomplish more in the house now that weekends are free and we just stay home,” Ms. Del Real said.

It’s also a time to make that family place a better place.

“Now that there aren’t gatherings, we’ve actually been able to use the weekends to decorate and fix things around the house that we haven’t gotten to in the past few years,” Ms. Del Real said.