It’s true when I originally sampled Flatland (don’t know if it was exactly middle school but somewhere around there) I rejected it because of its politics, completely missing the satire.
Well, lots of our contemporaries manage to miss that Clemens is lampooning racism in Huckleberry Finn and condemn the book because caricatured racism, and the N-word, appear in it repeatedly. (N----r Joe is arguably the most sympathetic character in the book!)
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For older kids this may work. I have little faith that early elementary kids will manage this with any real effectiveness. Given the requirements to frequently wash hands, sanitize and cleanse surfaces, distance on busses, close down communal areas (lunch rooms, playgrounds, gyms) and bring their own food and water, I am not hopeful many schools will succeed in matching best practices. I hate to sound like a gloomy Gus, but I am very pessimistic about the safety of opening schools.
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I feel obliged to point out some things which seem to be forgotten by many posters here. (We’ve discussed this before, but noone really keeps up reading the whole thing, right?)
Re: children are always harbigers of doom and full of viruses and germs: in the pandemic, this is different. With already endemic illnesses, children are more susceptible and often more contagious because they are immunonaive. In case of this SARS virus, we all are immunonaive.
I’m exhausted after this week, so I’ll skip on the other stuff. Long story short, WDKS, and we should not jump to conclusions. The important bit is to be careful, and not to make decisions based on assumptions which we would terribly regret.
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Children are major carriers of Coronavirus, say researchers
Interesting info.
Here in the UK i’ve broadly seen adults wearing facemasks…
To this date i’ve never seen anyone under 10 or so wear a mask, ever…
(i appreciate that won’t be easy, but seriously not even one seems to have tried…)
Parents are treating it as optional…
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It’s mostly younger kids I see without masks here. While not possible with all kids so young, our 3 year old wears her mask for our rare and pretty short trips to stores. Any kid 6 or older should be able to and be wearing one for any short amount of time out. I wouldn’t expect a child that young or younger to wear one all day.
Our mandate says it applies to all kids 8 and over.
Edit for typos.
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Experiment in nature. For us humans, the worst kind, but it is where we are. Might want to forward this to any teachers you know.
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No, I do remember, and yes, it was. I also remember the conclusion about women later on. I just think it would be a distraction if read in a math class context.
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