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Where Are All the Kids?

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Title (Dublin Core)

Where Are All the Kids?

Description (Dublin Core)

Our school has never looked better - festive flags waving, campus clean and painted, welcoming balloon arches. We were ready to re-open. But then, no one came. The message we teachers had been whispering amongst ourselves for weeks, that kids and their families do not want to come back yet, had come to fruition. Out of my 172 students, only 31 will step foot on campus, the rest will continue to logon from home. That number, 31, is expected to continue to drop as more students revert to only Distance Learning. Knowing how few students were on campus, I was surprised to see our school social media posted first day pictures. I know it was supposed to be celebratory, but I couldn’t stop laughing at the insanity of a balloon arch welcoming no one. How could our social media exclaim that we were “so happy to see students roam the halls again” and then post pictures of a completely empty school? It looks like Chernobyl. At some point, I decided to take the images, a video of an empty classroom my friend took, and my attendance roster with almost all kids marked as “Distance Learning” and put them together in a video to try and capture the mixed emotions. I alternatively feel like crying and laughing when I watch it. I really think it captures the reopening, albeit in a slightly subversive way. Of course, I really hope my admin never sees it, because I’m guessing they will not see the tongue and cheek, ironic humor in this.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 23, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Education--K12
English Online Learning
English Humor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

school
re-open
remote learning
balloon
empty
classroom
sad
funny

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

school
humor
reopen
irony
sad
subversive

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12
Humor

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/28/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/05/2021
08/02/2022
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Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/23/2021

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