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My dad just tested positive for COVID19.
He’s a 61 year old high school music teacher with already reduced lung capacity.
He had no choice but to go in and teach in person every single day for months, like some kind of soldier enlisted in war. There was no protection—NOTHING to keep him and others safe.
He had no choice but to go in and teach in person every single day for months, like some kind of soldier enlisted in war. There was no protection—NOTHING to keep him and others safe.
We’re told to just hope. But hope can’t protect us. Hope won’t keep us alive or keep our families safe.
Nothing can excuse the level of incompetence and inaction from our government. While politicians stay safely indoors waiting for a vaccine, we are expected to risk our lives.
Nothing can excuse the level of incompetence and inaction from our government. While politicians stay safely indoors waiting for a vaccine, we are expected to risk our lives.
This is my dad. He started 3D printing masks and donating them to hospitals and shelters when the pandemic hit and there was a mask shortage.
In his free time, he creates video games designed to teach music on an online platform he created to allows folk anywhere to learn music.
In his free time, he creates video games designed to teach music on an online platform he created to allows folk anywhere to learn music.
He taught himself how to program so that he could make learning music more accessible and engaging to learners who are like him. He challenges ableism and elitism, firmly rooted in the belief that music should be for everyone.
He also conducts an after school high school orchestra, where he lets the students select absolutely ANY songs they want to perform, and then writes his own arrangements for based on the instruments he has in the orchestra that year, and the skill level of each student.
Some students have never even held their instruments before, others have been playing since they were 5. Some can site read music, others can’t. They all come together in his arrangements to put on incredible shows, performing the songs that they love.
And I don’t mean like, “pick the song you like from this list”—I mean he will write an arrangement for any song they choose. He’s written orchestra arrangements for Kanye West songs. The students get to decide what music is important to them—he doesn’t decide that for them.
Oh—also, he spends his lunch hour teaching kids ranging from elementary to high school coding, programming, and robotics.
I can go on all day. My dad is an incredible man.
Gambling with his life cannot and should not be reduced to merely a “calculated risk”.
He is a person.
Gambling with his life cannot and should not be reduced to merely a “calculated risk”.
He is a person.
Every number in the statistics that politicians are discussing are people—each one of them significant.
Expunging the humanity from this situation in order to downplay its severity and justify negligence and inaction on the part of those in charge is inexcusable.
Expunging the humanity from this situation in order to downplay its severity and justify negligence and inaction on the part of those in charge is inexcusable.
