Teaching in a Pandemic

 It's pretty fucking unbelievable but not unexpected. They brought the kids back to school to take the fucking state test - I kid you not. Kids who are in school have to take the state test while kids who chose to remain home get "asynchronous" work. So, the kids who came back to school for in-person instruction are getting tested and kids who stayed home are watching Netflix. Nice. “Open schools!” they yelled. “Kids need in-person instruction,” they protested. “Kids need to interact with their peers,” they professed. “We’re ruining a whole generation of students,” they warned. Okay. Now we are opening schools. All over the country schools are implementing their reopening plans in an attempt to have students in classrooms during this pandemic. While for many the warning of 1918 came to mind -- when H1N1 suddenly attacked young people and children started dying. Right now, about 21 percent of new COVID cases are children, although they are not dying. My own grandson’s clas...