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New month, same flipping problems

8/1/2020

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        This afternoon I got the confirmation email from my children's school district: remote-learning until at least Friday October 30, with the next decision to be made in mid-October. That is more than my wife and I know about our own districts' status, but it's that is one less thing to think about. My kids will be in 10th and 12th grade, so they're technically capable of caring for themselves in our absences ... but of course I am still highly concerned for their productivity and general wellbeing if all alone for 7-8 hours every weekday. Let alone our concerns for our own health and safety in a classroom of potential disease vectors.
          I don't expect news from my district for at least 1 more week. And yes I know it seems this is all that I blog about ... but this is the topic that consumes my mind, and most of my social media feed. How could it not? We have been in this state of limbo since the week of March 9th: ever since some schools started closing and parents started keeping their kids at home. "When will we go back to the building?" "How will we work and interact in the meantime??" "Who is really in charge???" -- those have been the questions for over 4 months now. When we look back on this period, let's not forget about that uncertainty we lived with every day, week, month. I remember when the closure was supposed to be just 3 weeks ... then we were gonna be back May 4th ... and then most certainly we would get a fresh start in September. Nope, nope, nope.
         So I blog about these thoughts and feelings for posterity, because it still seems way too soon for specific lesson & activity planning!

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