HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
― Ordinary Grace
Am I the only one that sees the irony in us planning to send kids back to school the same week as the President is diagnosed with the virus?
Or the irony that we are sending kids back to school because we feel we can keep them safe for 7 and half hours, but we are not allowing parents into sporting events because we can’t keep them safe for 3 hours?
Then there is the irony of spending 3 weeks focusing on SEL only to blow up any reaped benefits 6 weeks later in order to get back into school to satisfy some sort of political agenda.
It ain’t irony, but it’s still puzzling, we want to send kids back to school in an effort to “return to normalcy” while refusing to acknowledge that what they are returning to is going to be no more familiar then remote learning. Kids will arrive at a school where unscheduled bathroom breaks will not be permitted. If recess time is allowed, and playground equipment is used, equipment will need to be wiped down regularly. For many students, it’ll require remaining in the same room, while teachers rotate, for the majority of the day.
Interactions between kids will be limited. No small group studies. Computers will travel back and forth to school. Florida Virtual School will continue to remain the flavor of the day.
Right now, some of you are reading this and saying to yourself, “That’s not going to be my school. My principal has already told us, things for us are going to be as close to regular school as CONTINUE READING: HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE – Dad Gone Wild