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The 128th Day, aka Day One
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The 128th Day, aka Day One
Description (Dublin Core)
For the first time in 374 days, I taught from my classroom today. It is the 128th day of school, we have only one quarter left. As nervous as we are about our community and the COVID risk level, I feel very positive and relieved to be back. COVID numbers have dropped considerably, and though I haven’t always seen eye to eye with my district in the way this entire pandemic has been handled, at the end of the day, I really feel like the right decisions were made Compared to neighboring districts, I feel our safety standards exceed the norm. It is strange still - the largest in person class I will have is seven students and the smallest is zero! Many families in our community have opted to continue distance learning through the rest of the school year, which I understand. We made the same choice for our two kids! Still, it was nice for the first time in over a year to wake up and have somewhere to go. Even though on one hand it seems ridiculous to Zoom an entire class of kids with two kids in the classroom who are sitting far away from me with headphones on and are logged into also the same Zoom meeting, I did feel re-energized to just be back in my classroom. I don’t think I have a greater prayer right now than for the vaccines to continue to work and for the adolescent and pediatric trials to successfully run their course. Wouldn’t it be incredible to have the kids vaccinated by fall? I know it will not be a reality for all students, but I think that piece of the puzzle will be a big part in mitigating the spread. In the meantime, I’ll continue to follow the pleas of the SOS sign that is taped all over the school. Indeed, let’s save our school year and the next one, too!
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Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
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Type (Dublin Core)
photography
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Home & Family Life
English
Education--K12
English
Government State
English
Health & Wellness
English
Government Local
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reopen
teacher
school
high school
mask
social distance
Zoom
Orange County
California
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/22/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/04/2021
04/22/2022
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/02/2021
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This item was submitted on March 22, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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