What are we doing?
What are we doing here anyways? The school year so far has been the most interesting professional experience of my life. There are so many analogies to choose from to describe it here, it's overwhelming to think about. Let's go with this one: it's as if you're a truck driver, and you show up to work one day, and everything is exactly the same, except you're going to be sailing a ship instead of driving a truck. Same cargo, same destination, same timeframe. Except drive a boat not a truck. Ready? Go. All of that, on top of the very real fear of catching a disease that is potentially deadly, while dealing with students and parents who think it's a hoax. My prediction was that by October, we would be teaching students virtually. I ended up being right about the timeframe, but completely wrong about the reason. A series of fights among members of the student population escalated and was finally caught on video and reported to the police. The subsequent investigat...