Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

And all of which presumes your rural kids and your urban core kids even have a computer, and adequate internet access, which many don't.

Most of the kids I work with here in NYC don't have either - so they use the library. And those services and hours have been diminishing the last few years thanks to tax and budget cuts anyway.

And now you've got the same Covid shutdown restrictions there in any case.

Cell phones, even smart phones, aren't sufficient to the task.

So "remote learning, " as bad as it is, is a non-starter for a some percentage of American kids unless/until we can underwrite better access for them.

 

If this thing gets going and LSU is 5-0, there is no way they will report positive tests. And there is no way that the local parish health department, no matter how overwhelmed, has the power to stop it.

 

Gripping his pillow tight, no doubt.

 

I think we — and by "we" I mean my wife — have decided to send our soon to be first-grader to the private school she went to for preschool, the Seventh-Day Adventist place. Small class sizes and friends she still talks about, so that's good. My wife and I are going to tour the place on Monday — it's separate from the preschool areas — meet the teacher and see how it feels.

My confidence about her or our older daughter making it through a full school year is at less than 50 percent. Well, way less, actually. We're going to try, though, and see if we can make it.

 

That is exactly what has to happen. Schools have to ensure that all students have access to computers and WiFi, or the whole thing falls apart.

 

Yep.

And as terrible a thing as C19 is on its own, it has also exposed tremendous cracks in our social systems here. Our failure to care for one another - or even ourselves - is pretty stark.

 

We've had active shooter training each of the past two years in my (now former) office.

Thirty sitting ducks huddling in a corner was not part of the drill.

Inventing ways to barricade doors, finding exits that aren't readily apparent and distracting the shooter with flying objects were part of the drill.

 

Have you investigated whether you get a refund if you decide to get her out of there before the end of the year?
Second question: Private colleges encourage tuition insurance coverage. Might be worth a look at whether such a thing exists in this case. I'm guessing it doesn't because any carriers have probably gotten out of the game for anything aside from colleges. But I figured I'd throw it out there. Best of luck.

 

I've thought about this a lot over the last couple of months or so. And I don't understand the mentality that seems to grip America where you're in it for yourself, maybe a few friends and family. But that you really don't care about anyone else for their well-being. You don't care if they're homeless or if they don't have enough food. there's no compassion and no empathy.

And I don't understand a society that criminalizes the people in those positions. And this virus has really revealed that it's not just the less fortunate we don't care about, it's everybody.