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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish people would atop posting Missouri, Louisiana, Florida and Texas news bits.  We have different community conditions with high numbers of vaccinated and school mask mandates.[/quote]

Does Virginia work for you? See above.[/quote]

Oh no!!!  (...but they're back open on Monday after hundreds of teachers tested clean).[/quote]

Good.  I am trying to stay positive for next week but I am so scared everything is going to be shredded at a moment’s notice and I am going to have to rethink my courses and lesson plans and use the brand new applications FCPS bought to teach virtually.

I think I was naive to think covid was dying out, that school would be “normal” in the fall.  The world has changed fundamentally and irrevocably and I am fairly certain that teaching for the next ten years is going to rely heavily on digital tools that accommodate virtual learning even if there are a good many of us who would like education to be all about face to face interactions and in-person communities.

Denial is a powerful weapon against the trauma of realization, but I suppose I need to face our changing reality rather than believe I can wish them away.  I am going to have to be smarter and stronger and more flexible if I want to continue to be employed as a teacher.   [/quote]

That was a confusing post.  I am saying that the reality is that people HAVEN’T agreed upon in-person school only, and there are enough people worried about and preparing for lockdowns or quarantines, that I am being asked to be prepared to shift teaching modes at any minute and to create and maintain a kind of “digital back-up” for my course.  More and more parents are using the digital resources to monitor their kids’ learning so that even if they insist on “in person only” they don’t always realize that those digital resources they like have already shifted the emphasis from paper, pencil, and textbook to a laptop-centric education.

Americans are fickle consumers who are accustomed to over-accommodating customer “service.”  People say they want X and not Y, and while it’s true that they want X  at the present time - they may be all about X today and tomorrow and the day after that - it’s likely they will want Y at some point in the near future.  So I have to do both.  It’s true I am not doing “concurrent teaching,” in the way I did it in the spring (thank God) but I can’t say I am truly returning to a school where most teaching and learning happens in-person.  It is sad that Education has become a service for consumers, but I don’t see much evidence to disprove that reality.[/quote]

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