My Tuesday plans
Nov 1, 2020 19:47:53 #
Disclaimer: I've long championed the Covid mitigation strategy of Sweden. I do not suggest NO action is a plan. I simply suggest that there are FAR more variables to study than just Covid counting......
If any of you payed attention over the summer months, I spent a considerable amount of time and effort making the case that schools and economies need not remain shut indefinitely. Thankfully, my home state has allowed students to get back to living their lives, and on Tuesday I have sports commitments.
I'll be getting up at 5:00 AM, prepping for work and getting to my classroom at 6:00. At that time, I'll prep my day and prep for may afternoon sub. About 6:45. I'll head to the Junior High football dressing room to get myself and the boys ready for AM football practice. Practice begins about 7:30 and runs to 8:20. Then breakfast and classes.
During the morning, I'll be headed out to vote, and at 1:00 PM we load up a bus with 16 high school girls to head out and play our first basketball scrimmage. Amid the 4+ hours of driving, the scrimmage will feature about 38 girls who represent a pair of programs ranked in the top 15 statewide. These kids have prepared for these games for YEARS, and deserve to live and to grow and to compete. I'm so proud that my state chose to put the needs of children into the equations they had to solve when Covid struck.
A neighboring state did not consider the children's needs it seems. This state, via gubernatorial mandate and not via the congress, has banned sports, band, choir, drama and virtually all other school activity, and the per-capita numbers re Covid are remarkably similar to my state. It appears in that state that the power to take action was too much temptation and that the need to APPEAR decisive overwhelmed the need to BE wise.
But not so in my area. Tuesday, I'll be busy and working up until nearly midnight Eastern, a responsibility I'm far happier to honor than words can express. After months of wishing, hoping and praying, I'm getting to work with kids, getting to watch them live their lives, to compete and be happy, healthy humans, none of which is happening for children just a couple counties away, in the next state.
If any of you payed attention over the summer months, I spent a considerable amount of time and effort making the case that schools and economies need not remain shut indefinitely. Thankfully, my home state has allowed students to get back to living their lives, and on Tuesday I have sports commitments.
I'll be getting up at 5:00 AM, prepping for work and getting to my classroom at 6:00. At that time, I'll prep my day and prep for may afternoon sub. About 6:45. I'll head to the Junior High football dressing room to get myself and the boys ready for AM football practice. Practice begins about 7:30 and runs to 8:20. Then breakfast and classes.
During the morning, I'll be headed out to vote, and at 1:00 PM we load up a bus with 16 high school girls to head out and play our first basketball scrimmage. Amid the 4+ hours of driving, the scrimmage will feature about 38 girls who represent a pair of programs ranked in the top 15 statewide. These kids have prepared for these games for YEARS, and deserve to live and to grow and to compete. I'm so proud that my state chose to put the needs of children into the equations they had to solve when Covid struck.
A neighboring state did not consider the children's needs it seems. This state, via gubernatorial mandate and not via the congress, has banned sports, band, choir, drama and virtually all other school activity, and the per-capita numbers re Covid are remarkably similar to my state. It appears in that state that the power to take action was too much temptation and that the need to APPEAR decisive overwhelmed the need to BE wise.
But not so in my area. Tuesday, I'll be busy and working up until nearly midnight Eastern, a responsibility I'm far happier to honor than words can express. After months of wishing, hoping and praying, I'm getting to work with kids, getting to watch them live their lives, to compete and be happy, healthy humans, none of which is happening for children just a couple counties away, in the next state.
Nov 1, 2020 20:15:42 #
Nov 2, 2020 07:07:41 #
Nov 2, 2020 11:18:14 #
Nov 2, 2020 11:22:11 #
Just like today
Get up and go cut wood
Read the daily attic comments during coffe break.... no radio no tv
Get up and go cut wood
Read the daily attic comments during coffe break.... no radio no tv
Nov 2, 2020 12:00:40 #
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