Petition to Support Students & Communities During Mass School Closures–Diary of a Teacher During the Coronavirus Crisis, Entry #2 – I AM AN EDUCATOR

Petition to Support Students & Communities During Mass School Closures–Diary of a Teacher During the Coronavirus Crisis, Entry #2 – I AM AN EDUCATOR

Petition to Support Students & Communities During Mass School Closures–Diary of a Teacher During the Coronavirus Crisis, Entry #2

During this period of mass school closures around the country and around the world due to COVID-19, Seattle teacher Jesse Hagopian is going to share his experience with educating his kids at home and helping social movements to promote public health. Below is Jesse’s “Diary Entry #2” that contains a petition to help students and communities during this crisis. You can follow these posts at http://www.IAmAnEducator.com

This morning 1.1 million New York City School students woke up to their first COVID-19 day off of school.  Millions more in some 33 states around the country have now had the schoolhouse doors closed to them and nearly 300 million students around the world are out of school to try to stop the spread of this deadly disease.  In fact, public life itself is being shut down with the announcements cities such as from my hometown of Seattle to LA to New York City that restaurants and bars would be closed.  The Center for Disease Control recommended on Sunday that there should no longer be any gatherings of 50 people or more for at least eight weeks.  The infection rate and death toll are mounting around the world.

This was all a lot for me to take in as I checked my twitter feed and read the paper this morning.  I decided it wouldn’t be healthy for me to panic my two kids with all of this information at once.  I did let them know that restaurants would be closed starting today and we would need to cook all our own food.  As we sent the boy’s mom out the door to work and wished her well, we decided that the first homeschool CONTINUE READING: Petition to Support Students & Communities During Mass School Closures–Diary of a Teacher During the Coronavirus Crisis, Entry #2 – I AM AN EDUCATOR