The announcement came from Baltimore County Schools yesterday: Online distance learning to start the year. Likely to continue through the end of this calendar year, possibly longer.
My heart aches for my teacher friends who are separated from their students and classrooms and from doing what they love.
My heart aches for the children I know in BCPS schools - as we want nothing more than to give them some sense of normal and with a continuation of online learning, they will not have that at all.
We are 128 days into this mess - and there is no end in sight. While there is "hope" for my children to actually go back into the classroom this fall (yay, Catholic school), I'm truthfully conflicted regarding that reality. Is the classroom best given the circumstances? The world is crumbling around us and I'm going to send them off without acknowledging the pieces at my feet?
But then there is the matter of keeping them home. Is that best? Is that healthiest? Is it realistic for me to keep them in a bubble and far away from any threats?
128 days and I have more questions than answers.
128 days of learning that some people are reprehensible hemorrhoids (an asshole has a purpose and a function) who bring nothing to the communal table but hate and anger and intolerance and impatience.
128 days...and we are no closer to a solution.
I hope to God that I can look back at this time at laugh. Right now, there is no bubble of laughter that builds in my chest. Instead - it is a void and an ache with whispers of fear that bounce off of cavernous walls.
I have seen several memes about the importance of being positive. Letting children see you happy so that they will be happy with the circumstance. While I completely subscribe to that notion, there is an issue with that train of thought: this sucks. It sucks for them as much as it sucks for us.
128 days of faking it in the hopes of making it...how many more?
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