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Reentering the Public School System After a Pandemic
As a teacher, I never imagined I’d be teaching online for an entire year, and I am grateful to be back in school with my students.
Who could have ever imagined a pandemic would come along and bring the entire world to its knees? Certainly, society has faced pandemics before, but except for only a very few alive today, it is a distant memory and something that is only discussed in history books. Most of us couldn’t even have imagined living through a pandemic when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day 2020.
Although there were inklings of what was to come in just a few short months. The news mentioned stories coming out of China regarding a new strain of coronavirus that was killing their citizens. I had wondered how seriously I should take these stories and if I should be concerned. The news sounded dire, but how bad could it really be? I was about to find out.
March 2020
Life was still pretty good despite the news of what was officially called COVID-19 spreading throughout the world and even into my home state of California. Infected citizens were being flown in from other countries to our local airport and sent to the hospital just a few blocks down the street from my place of…
