Week 2

I now have a KN95 mask labelled for each day of the week. I feel more confident about driving to work. I miss my reading time on the subway. There are still way more questions than answers about how this school year is supposed to look.

For example…attendance is usually pretty straightforward. The student is sitting in front of you, they are present. They are not – they’re absent. But…since I will never have them in a room together, how am I supposed to keep track? When am I allowed to assign work? Do the hybrid and fully remote students need different due dates for assignments? The list goes on and on.

But I am here. And I am doing what I have been tasked with. However, it still seems like a wasted opportunity to spend so much time and energy on the scheduling to see students once or twice a week rather than spending the time improving remote learning.

There have been many cases of COVID 19 reported in schools across the city already (no thanks to the DOE; they’ve only confirmed a couple of cases.) but that fact has not appeared to sway the mayor from this potentially disastrous course he has set. So we can only do what we can do. Which is show up for our students and support them and try to keep ourselves and our families safe.