All my dreams came true last night. All my hopes and fears. All my dreams came true once more. In tears, in tears...

No one is going to help us.

I am mad as hew-haw heck about it.
How did the US become the Florida of the world?

School starts Monday for the kid. No agreement reached with the union and the district. 

Annoyed with the district and the teacher's union. With their distrust of each other, everyone will end up losing. The teachers, district, parents, staff, and most importantly the students. 

I want everyone to feel safe and protected. But really? You start negotiations a week before school is supposed to start. We are all dealing with hardships of some kind during this pandemic and it would be great if all could be on the same team.  

So what to do? 

Outschool courses have an 80% approval rate with my kid. They are not too expensive, so some of those to supplement.

If there are in-person camps, she can go to one of them. The summer camps that were offered I felt safe sending her to and she loved them.

I have a couple of weeks until I go back to work full time, so we can go on adventures to look for birds, go roller skating, and beach trips. Once I go back though, she will have to be on her own with hopefully some kind of school to engage her.

As far as the school I work at- we will have in-person appointments available for students to use our scanner for course reserves, material pick up times, and a bunch of virtual services. Our district has been extremely silent over the past 3 months. Not sure what they are doing besides not communicating with their employees.

Creating this new reality has been difficult and is often met with a lot of resistance. Probably it is fueled by denial, I dunno. Maybe I am the one in denial thinking that society should use this as an opportunity to do good for all peoples. Invest in education for all, show through changes in policy that black lives matter, provide protections for people who live check to check, or who now have no checks, make all efforts in dealing with the pandemic free- testing, medications, hospital stays. Make not wearing a mask in public a hefty fine. 

People aren't going out to bars and spending their money at the movies, so why can't we as a society take a moment in between Zoom calls to be a positive contribution toward this new reality?

Total side note- I think me and the husband are going to do 10-minute mini-casts about music.