It looks like the counting is nearly over, and Biden/Harris have won. All the news outlets are reporting it, and it seems like a done deal. It is a huge and critical victory, Harris is a historic vp-elect and Biden will be a terrific president. So why am I…
I love Halloween, it might be my favorite holiday, or certainly way up there. This year was always going to be weird - with the coronavirus, trick-or-treating was off the table from the get-go and we couldn't have an indoor party or anything like that, but we still thought that…
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” I was saying to my wife the other day that I felt like even if all we had to deal with was the coronavirus, and even if it was being managed sensibly, it would be an impossible load…
My knee is not really getting much better. I've been kind-of babying it for a couple of months hoping that it would start healing a little more, but that hasn't really helped. My doctor had me get another MRI (I have had so many by now that if I get…
Ok, so I'll be up-front and say that I think this hybrid schooling idea is for the birds. IMHO it's a terrible compromise that gives us the worst of both worlds and puts students and teachers at risk for very minimal benefit. In our town, hybrid learning is a two-and-a-half…
The COVID numbers in Massachusetts are getting worse. Like a lot worse. We had been in the low 200s in August and most of September. Yesterday was 700+. Somehow though the governor still thinks it's appropriate to push to open schools, to increase the limit on gatherings, and to allow…
So I ended up with nearly two pages of signatures on that letter, with more still trickling in. I sent it to the principals, the administrators, and the school committee. The response has been tremendous. The superintendent said that he had sent the letter on to the entire faculty and…
I've been really frustrated by a small but very vocal group of parents who are agitating for the schools to open in-person. Their premise seems to be that the pandemic is overblown and that remote schooling is all some grand conspiracy by lazy teachers and overly powerful teachers unions. (Anyone…