In response to my "ASK ME ANYTHING" post
When did you first try cocaine and how was that experience?
Never.
I'm one of those people who realizes I have an addictive personality. In my 20's I smoked enough cigarettes that it's plausible to have confused me for having 6 fingers on my right hand.
When I realized how difficult THAT addiction was, I consciously decided that I should never go down that rabbit hole.
If a ritual sacrifice could appease the gods and end it all who in the town would you sacrifice and why?
As a public educator, please understand why it might be in poor taste for me to answer this.
Has the shutdown been called at state, county, board or individual level?
Okay, this is where it gets interesting.
For Connecticut, the answer is... BOTH, but in different ways.
The town I worked in (which I will not reveal here, despite simple Google searched providing an answer) is the first case I've heard of where a child was tested. When THAT news came in, we immediately had to dive into planning mode. Yesterday, myself and the other people in my department (I am a specialist, not a "classroom" teacher) came up with two weeks of lesson plans that would work for our populations. Every department and every grade level did this, in the event that we were shut down.
This morning, our SI announced we would shut down for tomorrow.
When the child's test came back POSITIVE, we were shut down indefinitely by the SI and all students and personnel who work in that building were told to submit themselves to a quarantine for 14 days for monitoring. I have no idea presently if that will be extended to other schools, or for that matter when I am going back to work.
HERE'S where the state comes in: there's a law on the books that students have to have 180 days in a "learning environment." Our governor waived that law today.
HERE'S WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED: waiving the 180 law does NOT mean that those days we are taking off due to the health crisis will in ANY way be forgiven, and it's very plausible that we will be in school until the last legal day (June 30). In order for those days to be forgiven at the state level, you have to show proof of planning and student assessment. To my knowledge, there has so far been 10 districts that applied for the waiver and were DENIED because of insufficient support for special needs students. So, it's not looking "good" in that respect.
But I love my wife. And I love my two very small children. And my wife and I have worked out a schedule whereby we both can do work, watch the kids, and have quality time as the two of us. So I'm very, very much looking forward to that
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Dude.
If it's free, I don't care, I'm eating it.
OMG, weird timing!
All the specialists eat lunch together in my school and I made a joke about shutting down travel and that I haven't heard of that since 9/11 because, honestly, who's going to want to go to Disneyland in the midst of that?
Turns out my librarian WAS at Disney when 9/11 happened. The day after, she was there when it was evacuated and everyone was made to leave.
Okay, this shit is infuriating.
That's asshattery at its finest.
The hospitals local to me are testing ANYONE who walks in through their doors, regardless of whether they are looking for aid or they are accompanying that person and to my knowledge it's covered. I'll double check that, but the lead singer of my band deals in hospitality and my brother is an ER nurse and NEITHER of them have mentioned anything regarding $$$ to me about testings.
