On Quarantine: Only beginning to understand WTF is going on: Day 10
Well, it's well into quarantine day 10...and I'm just now feeling like I can unpack my emotions of the past 240hrs.
I was supposed to be substitute teaching for my favorite high school English class for 20 days starting on March 5th. I got to Wednesday the 11th when all chaos was unleashed across the world, and the creeping effects of the COVID-19 virus started to seep into our daily lives.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020: It was a half day block schedule for the kids, so we only saw 2nd, 4th, and 6th period that day. There was an odd staff meeting called that basically said, "Please show up PROMPTLY at 1:20 pm. We cannot write this in the email, so please be on time..." With that ominous note, we all thought we were going to get notice of the school district closure. Nope, we just got the announcement that one of the vice principals was going to be moving to a middle school...at the end of the year. THAT WAS IT. Go on back to your rooms, now.
(Unbeknownst to us at about 1:27 during that bizarre announcement/letdown "staff meeting," the district released the school closure information to the parents and on the district web site.)
We get back to our classrooms to try and "plan" for the rest of the day, when we log into our computers (the district web site always pops up in every browser as a default homepage) and there as a giant pop up is the message that the school district will be closed immidiately until March 27th. There were never a moment so perfectly deserving of "What the Actual Fuck?"
We were left completely stunned and confused. That should be a movie title: "Stunned and Confused, a teacher's story:2020"
To top it all off, a teacher said that a bus driver of a special needs bus tested positive for the virus. I just happened to be in a small classroom of a lady who worked directly with a student who ride that bus. My co-teacher guy started to freak out. "I don't even know if I should even go home to my kids!" He was being a little too dramatic for me... and my nerves were already shot from the day. A friend was supposed to be coming over early this afternoon (because today was a short day...). Nope, stayed 30 mins late because they freaked me the fuck out talking about all this potential COVID-19 exposure business.
I went home really freaked out...thinking I could've been in contact with the virus 3rd hand...
The president was supposed to be speaking that evening ...so we sat in awe at the situation, and that our nation was being "led" by this giant buffoon of a man-baby. We laughed nervously, because It was as if he was FINALLY being made to read the ACTUAL, written-for-him-by-other-people-who-can-think-and-craft-words, speech. We were like, "okay, well, MAYBE now the world is taking it seriously."
We relaxed with a beer together on the back patio and vented about how fucked up this whole situation was. My hubby came out to say hi, and he at least was a reassurance that it might be okay. He talked about statistics and that this is the right thing to do according to scientists. Whenever my husband says something...you know that he's looked up the facts behind it. Also, he's one of the smartest, most kind people I've ever known. When he has control of the situation, you know that everything is going to somehow be okay. ((Sorry, projecting the love of my hubby onto the situation. WOOPS.))
We processed our feelings together; The actual humans inside the government now took this seriously; we will take it one day at a time. I think we all felt better. Having my friend and her pup come over was such a great help.
Thursday was considered a "snow day" for the schools to decide what to do and/or sanitize our schools. They made no effort to inform anyone about who may have a confirmed case in the district. So irritating! We need to know all the facts so that we know who has it and where--but still we got no information on that front...
Friday, there was a teacher work day scheduled with no students. We were required to go back to school for meetings, and the principal announced what the district's thoughts had been this whole time. Then there was a Microsoft TEAMS how-to training that I went to. I was still technically scheduled to 'be' the actual teacher, so to the training I went...until further notice. I enjoyed going to the little info session. Then I planned with my co-teacher guy until the "end of the day." So our required tentative plan was to be on TEAMS available to chat and have meetings with other people while working on posting content.
At this point I had texted the teacher I was subbing for to ask if she could get approved to come "back to work" since it was online and she just had a hip-replacement. She can easily be online posting work. I told her that I would be so glad to keep working for her. We would just have to make sure the district will pay me and add one more day to my job and I would be considered a "long-term" sub (21 days bumps you to an official "long-term" status). My teacher said she had emailed, called, and left messages with HR. So I didn't want to be a pest, and didn't email the sub coordinator that Monday. The next day, I logged on at 8am ready to be helpful and post stuff! I had no idea what to post because we were told that this is NOT online school--NO GRADING. It was the 'enhancing of previous information' they have already learned in the year. And when we come back on April 27th, it will be as if we began where you just stopped.
Yeah, okay. Are they asking for completely new curriculum? Are we supposed to continue on as if we were teaching to them live, but on video? How are we supposed to do any of this? How do I broadcast a PowerPoint? How and where do I upload it to the kids? These are just the beginning of the whirlwind of unanswered questions the teachers were having to deal with...
So meanwhile, all that going on and I don't know if I'm going to get paid for any of this. I really like these kids and I'd totally help my teacher out if she needed me to, but...it was all unknown what they wanted us to do. So I worked a little bit until on Wednesday when the sub coordinator confirmed that I'm not getting paid because all of my remaining days were officially canceled (they just did a massive delete of all the substitutes' jobs in the system). The substitute coordinator did not care one bit when I confirmed that there will be no teacher for this class for the next 2 weeks. Thanks, that's all I needed to know about you substitute coordinator. "That is something the Administrators need to work on." Really woman?! You are the freaking coordinator of subs and you can't add one day to my job? What the hell else do you do all day?
I was a little disappointed that I was basically told 'too bad, you're not going to be paid for whatever you do.' This job WAS going to give me a great task to look forward to every day. I was going to get on a mandatory schedule and make a healthy routine for myself. I was excited to hear from the kids and do fun techy things with them that the other teacher might not know of. So yeah, I was kinda bummed. I know I could do all of that anyway...but, that would give me such good motivation, AND I would be having fun and getting paid for it! Ugh, bummer. (But my brain can't begin to imagine the stress of all the actual teachers out there being thrust into this horrible unknown!) I logged on later that week and saw that their teacher was posting to them. (I think she has her curriculum memorized--she's amazing).
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Our Irresponsible Last Gathering
Our good friend texted me nervously the next day asking if she was sick or not.
I was supposed to be substitute teaching for my favorite high school English class for 20 days starting on March 5th. I got to Wednesday the 11th when all chaos was unleashed across the world, and the creeping effects of the COVID-19 virus started to seep into our daily lives.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020: It was a half day block schedule for the kids, so we only saw 2nd, 4th, and 6th period that day. There was an odd staff meeting called that basically said, "Please show up PROMPTLY at 1:20 pm. We cannot write this in the email, so please be on time..." With that ominous note, we all thought we were going to get notice of the school district closure. Nope, we just got the announcement that one of the vice principals was going to be moving to a middle school...at the end of the year. THAT WAS IT. Go on back to your rooms, now.
(Unbeknownst to us at about 1:27 during that bizarre announcement/letdown "staff meeting," the district released the school closure information to the parents and on the district web site.)
We get back to our classrooms to try and "plan" for the rest of the day, when we log into our computers (the district web site always pops up in every browser as a default homepage) and there as a giant pop up is the message that the school district will be closed immidiately until March 27th. There were never a moment so perfectly deserving of "What the Actual Fuck?"
We were left completely stunned and confused. That should be a movie title: "Stunned and Confused, a teacher's story:2020"
To top it all off, a teacher said that a bus driver of a special needs bus tested positive for the virus. I just happened to be in a small classroom of a lady who worked directly with a student who ride that bus. My co-teacher guy started to freak out. "I don't even know if I should even go home to my kids!" He was being a little too dramatic for me... and my nerves were already shot from the day. A friend was supposed to be coming over early this afternoon (because today was a short day...). Nope, stayed 30 mins late because they freaked me the fuck out talking about all this potential COVID-19 exposure business.
I went home really freaked out...thinking I could've been in contact with the virus 3rd hand...
The president was supposed to be speaking that evening ...so we sat in awe at the situation, and that our nation was being "led" by this giant buffoon of a man-baby. We laughed nervously, because It was as if he was FINALLY being made to read the ACTUAL, written-for-him-by-other-people-who-can-think-and-craft-words, speech. We were like, "okay, well, MAYBE now the world is taking it seriously."
We relaxed with a beer together on the back patio and vented about how fucked up this whole situation was. My hubby came out to say hi, and he at least was a reassurance that it might be okay. He talked about statistics and that this is the right thing to do according to scientists. Whenever my husband says something...you know that he's looked up the facts behind it. Also, he's one of the smartest, most kind people I've ever known. When he has control of the situation, you know that everything is going to somehow be okay. ((Sorry, projecting the love of my hubby onto the situation. WOOPS.))
We processed our feelings together; The actual humans inside the government now took this seriously; we will take it one day at a time. I think we all felt better. Having my friend and her pup come over was such a great help.
Thursday was considered a "snow day" for the schools to decide what to do and/or sanitize our schools. They made no effort to inform anyone about who may have a confirmed case in the district. So irritating! We need to know all the facts so that we know who has it and where--but still we got no information on that front...
Friday, there was a teacher work day scheduled with no students. We were required to go back to school for meetings, and the principal announced what the district's thoughts had been this whole time. Then there was a Microsoft TEAMS how-to training that I went to. I was still technically scheduled to 'be' the actual teacher, so to the training I went...until further notice. I enjoyed going to the little info session. Then I planned with my co-teacher guy until the "end of the day." So our required tentative plan was to be on TEAMS available to chat and have meetings with other people while working on posting content.
At this point I had texted the teacher I was subbing for to ask if she could get approved to come "back to work" since it was online and she just had a hip-replacement. She can easily be online posting work. I told her that I would be so glad to keep working for her. We would just have to make sure the district will pay me and add one more day to my job and I would be considered a "long-term" sub (21 days bumps you to an official "long-term" status). My teacher said she had emailed, called, and left messages with HR. So I didn't want to be a pest, and didn't email the sub coordinator that Monday. The next day, I logged on at 8am ready to be helpful and post stuff! I had no idea what to post because we were told that this is NOT online school--NO GRADING. It was the 'enhancing of previous information' they have already learned in the year. And when we come back on April 27th, it will be as if we began where you just stopped.
Yeah, okay. Are they asking for completely new curriculum? Are we supposed to continue on as if we were teaching to them live, but on video? How are we supposed to do any of this? How do I broadcast a PowerPoint? How and where do I upload it to the kids? These are just the beginning of the whirlwind of unanswered questions the teachers were having to deal with...
So meanwhile, all that going on and I don't know if I'm going to get paid for any of this. I really like these kids and I'd totally help my teacher out if she needed me to, but...it was all unknown what they wanted us to do. So I worked a little bit until on Wednesday when the sub coordinator confirmed that I'm not getting paid because all of my remaining days were officially canceled (they just did a massive delete of all the substitutes' jobs in the system). The substitute coordinator did not care one bit when I confirmed that there will be no teacher for this class for the next 2 weeks. Thanks, that's all I needed to know about you substitute coordinator. "That is something the Administrators need to work on." Really woman?! You are the freaking coordinator of subs and you can't add one day to my job? What the hell else do you do all day?
I was a little disappointed that I was basically told 'too bad, you're not going to be paid for whatever you do.' This job WAS going to give me a great task to look forward to every day. I was going to get on a mandatory schedule and make a healthy routine for myself. I was excited to hear from the kids and do fun techy things with them that the other teacher might not know of. So yeah, I was kinda bummed. I know I could do all of that anyway...but, that would give me such good motivation, AND I would be having fun and getting paid for it! Ugh, bummer. (But my brain can't begin to imagine the stress of all the actual teachers out there being thrust into this horrible unknown!) I logged on later that week and saw that their teacher was posting to them. (I think she has her curriculum memorized--she's amazing).
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Our Irresponsible Last Gathering
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So at this point the state of Washington was only canceling things like concerts and gatherings over 500 people. We held out hope that my big 30th birthday shin-dig was still going to happen--since it was only like 50-80 people maximum.
So at this point the state of Washington was only canceling things like concerts and gatherings over 500 people. We held out hope that my big 30th birthday shin-dig was still going to happen--since it was only like 50-80 people maximum.
Previously that week, we planned to do a small game-night with my bro in law, his girlfriend, and another good friend. A nice small gathering. None of us have been sick I assured our good friend... Then the BIL's girlfriend coughs furiously into her shirt frequently during our game of passing cards and pieces to each other... she then starts telling us her story of how she had a slight fever a few weeks prior and decided to get tested for COVID-19. She travels a lot for work, so she's in-and-out of airports frequently. The brother in law had mentioned that she was sick briefly during a voice chat earlier that week, but I didn’t think anything of it. We didn’t really have much to go on in the pre-quarantine-limited information about the virus-world of COVID-19. Someone could have it and not know! This realization of how fast this would spread during our little game hit me hard after they left.
Our good friend texted me nervously the next day asking if she was sick or not.
My husband and I decided that WE were probably the irresponsible party to blame for still hosting a gathering at all in the first place...so, we sat down and decided to cancel my 30th birthday party we had been planning for months. That was on March 15th. About 2 hours later, the governor banned gatherings of 10 or more, thus canceling my party anyway...
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