Pages Tagged “School”
Reviews
- The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
★★★★★
Mira Grant
Seared into my memory. Cascading failures as zombies attack an elementary school. Well-written, but I never, ever want to read it again.
Blog Posts
- Perspective
Once more, for those in the back: Introducing students to multiple points of view is NOT “indoctrination.” Insisting that they can only be exposed to YOUR point of view IS.
- Elementary Precautions
For the second day in a row weâve gotten a notice of a Covid exposure in the kidâs classroom. One more case and itâs technically an outbreak. Mask-optional was one thing when cases were low and flat, but the numbers have been climbing for weeks. And thatâs not including however many at-home tests donât get […]
- Covid Elementary
The kid has spent parts of three school years now dealing with Covid-19. I’m not sure “normal” school really has much meaning for him at this point. Though things have sort of settled into, if not a new normal yet, something approximating it. Of course everything shut down in March 2020. Like many other school […]
- An Expression
Overheard during Zoom Mad Libs: Teacher: “I need an expression.” Student: (unintelligible) Teacher: “An appropriate expression.”
- That’s What They Want You To Think
I know there’s essentially zero chance that the audio stream from my phone playing the Cracked podcast on ridiculous psy-ops that governments have actually considered will get picked up by my kid’s video-conference class session on another device. Even if Zoom is listening for more traffic than it should, there’s HTTPS, WPA2, etc. I’d have […]