Zero miles so far today...hopefully I'll work up some energy this evening.
Teaching this year has been twice as exhausting as it used to be and I'm about twice as old as I was when I started. In the morning before work I'll be thinking about what I'm going to do after school, make all these grand plans, then I end up taking a nap.
We've spent the last two years sending the message to kids that school doesn't matter and we're seeing the repercussions of that now. Adults forget how long two years is in the life of a kid. Many are having a hard time remembering when school was taken seriously. In my district we have abandoned all attendance requirements and made it virtually impossible to fail a class so that virtually every standard has been lowered.
There may have been perfectly valid reasons to make some of these changes. Covid is real. I feel like many of the choices we have made in this country over the last two years were merely what we thought were the best of only bad options. But there are consequences that are going to be with us for a while.
PM: 4.5 night time miles.
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