Large Group All-State Speech honors were given out to Iowa high school students last week. (See, for example, here and here and here and here.) Each locally-focused story, though, contains one sad detail: There will be no All-State performance day. Again.
I think that All-State Speech is the first notable Iowa event to be cancelled for the second year in a row. Cedar Rapids is having a drive-thru parade for St. Patrick’s Day, or maybe a better term is reverse parade, where people go past the floats.
As someone who made All-State Speech, I know what two years of kids are missing out on, and that’s very sad.