It never once felt like St. Patrick’s Day today. Not for a minute. It’s not that I’m
gung-ho for St. Pat’s celebrations… some years maybe I go outside for a few minutes
and get super sunburned. But as an
educator, you’re usually reminded of holidays and whatnot by the regularity of
calendar-related festivities and decorations around schools. This year, it was just a normal Tuesday.
We’ve started to talk more at work about the
potential need for preparing for this being a longer absence than the initial
two-week prescription. Kelly has family
in Korea and they have been out of school almost a month (and won’t return until
April), so in a way this is not a surprise, but it’s also a shift in
perspective to begin to contemplate how it will look here and what might need
to be done to make it successful (or at least to reduce academic damage).
I wonder how long this will last and what the
impact on education will be for the rest of the semester… at this point, I wonder
about relapses in the fall, and even the phrase “how long this will last”
implies an endpoint… what will be the new normal we return to?
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