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The neighborhood was quiet this morning.
It was supposed to be full of the excited chatter of young kids gathering at the bus stop with their new backpacks, while the older ones played it cool and the parents visited over coffee in between snapping photos.
The neighborhood was quiet this morning.
It was supposed to be full of the excited chatter of young kids gathering at the bus stop with their new backpacks, while the older ones played it cool and the parents visited over coffee in between snapping photos.
(actually, it was supposed to be 2 weeks ago)
Instead we were all sequestered in our homes, hunched over Chromebooks with headphones. Reasonably tech-savvy parents struggling to navigate Google Classroom.
Kids saying hello to their friends through a screen.
Instead we were all sequestered in our homes, hunched over Chromebooks with headphones. Reasonably tech-savvy parents struggling to navigate Google Classroom.
Kids saying hello to their friends through a screen.
The first-day-of-school experience crammed into 13.3 diagonal inches of two dimensional space.
It was exciting and new and yet weirdly sort-of familiar, but mostly just sad.
What will this do to our kids?
And yet - my family has the resources to deal with it.
It was exciting and new and yet weirdly sort-of familiar, but mostly just sad.
What will this do to our kids?
And yet - my family has the resources to deal with it.
Moms and Dads everywhere are faced with impossible tradeoffs:
1. The safety of virtual learning versus the academic and social (and in some cases nutritional and physical and emotional) benefits of attending school; and
2. More broadly - our jobs versus our kids.
1. The safety of virtual learning versus the academic and social (and in some cases nutritional and physical and emotional) benefits of attending school; and
2. More broadly - our jobs versus our kids.
Make no mistake. We are in this position because our government, uniquely among first-world governments, utterly failed in its job to protect its citizens.
And moms and dads everywhere are pissed about it.
We are TIRED of our children's future being neglected.
And moms and dads everywhere are pissed about it.
We are TIRED of our children's future being neglected.
Kids (& working parents) don't have lobbyists. And this pandemic is exposing the vulnerabilities created by inequalities of all kinds. We must finally address them with real solutions. Until then we will just keep trying to make the best of every day.
#WearADamnMask
And #Vote
#WearADamnMask
And #Vote
