The War Room

This is our war room. Looks like something out of The Matrix.

Today our school district extended our shut down indefinitely. I would have never imagined this at the beginning of the school year. Just unbelievable. I have been learning how to be a remote educator on the fly. I've learned that Zoom is a much better platform than Google Meets. I'm very glad I already had a YouTube Channel set up. I'm thankful for good internet service.

So when that photo was taken above, Ava was studying math on Prodigy. Jackson was in his room participating in a Zoom chat with his Robotics class on his phone. Kim was recording a short video for her students on her YouTube Channel. I was prepping presentation slides for my online Zoom class sessions tomorrow.

It has been a weird time. Thanks for family, a home, WiFi and Netflix!

Pandemic

It's a weird time.

We are under quarantine in North Texas. School shut down...likely for the year. I packed up my classroom yesterday. All learning is now online. I've been scrambling to get it all together.

Was stressed enough but then apparently there are those out there who think it's okay to end social distancing in order to get the economy going again. These people are willing to sacrifice people's lives for money.

Most of my friends in Texas have come around about how serious COVID-19 is. But I still have some moronic friends who are living in denial. These attitudes are dangerous and deadly. 

Super Tuesday in Texas

Went and voted in the Super Tuesday Primary during my lunch break today. A friend of mine is the Election Judge for my polling station. I saw that the guy behind me was wearing a MAGA hat. I told her and she promptly made him remove his hat and take it to his car. This made me so happy. It's the small victories...

I have to admit that as I pulled into the parking lot I was slightly intimidated by all the last minute campaigners sitting among the hundreds of signs planted beyond the 100 foot radius they must be from the polling station entrance. I've voted many times and am strong of conviction. Even so, I always find such displays jarring. I think these signs need to be removed even further afield.

I voted for fellow Oklahoman, Elizabeth Warren. Pragmatically I should have voted for Biden. But I went with both my brain and heart. I'm sick of pragmatism. I'll vote for Bernie if he's the nominee. But I honestly don't think he has a chance against Trump. I'm also not impressed with his dogmatic, uncompromising view of doing politics. That's not how leadership works and that type of intransigence will spell disaster in Washington. I think Biden is too old and too cozy with the establishment.

Warren probably doesn't have a chance. But she got my vote.