There is really nothing good to say about closing public school campuses throughout the United States and keeping many of them closed for the foreseeable future.
As a teacher these days, you do your best to keep students engaged and learning through the screen of a computer and the spasms of their internet conductivity and you try to lift their spirits when they feel down, which is almost all the time. You lie awake and imagine some version of school that could be held in person without assisting this virus in its sinister mission. You think about the president and his flunkies and their disappointment in you for not being in the classroom so that students can be where students belong.
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