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stevenpiziks) wrote2022-08-30 09:35 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2022-08-30 09:35 pm
Stormy Start to School Year
This year's new school year proceeded normally. At first.
I did my two religious makeup days and used the time to make loads of lesson plans and a cornucopia of copies. I reset my classroom (what other job requires you to completely disassemble your office, including your computer system, and then set it up back up whenever you go on vacation?). Then we had two days of staff development. Then it was the weekend, and Monday we welcomed the students.
I have a section of mythology, three sections of English 12 (one of them co-taught with a special education teacher; the class is for students who struggle with English), and a section of English 9. First impressions? My mythology students will be fun. My freshmen will be a handful. And the co-taught English 12 will be surprisingly mellow. I was expecting more rowdiness from that class, but they were really chill. Which is cool.
I drove home--
--and the storm hit. Slammed into us, really. Winds at 70 MPH, sideways rain, continual lightning and thunder. I like thunderstorms, but this was a bit much even for me! But it passed after a few minutes, and things went back to normal.
And then we got the robocall. Turns out all of Wherever is without power AND is under a boil water advisory, to boot. School was cancelled for Tuesday.
I think that has to be the earliest school cancellation ever.
I feel I should point out that, in the entire time I lived in Wherever, our house never once lost power. Now that we've moved down to Ypsilanti, we STILL haven't lost power, and Wherever is in the dark. I take responsibility and offer my apologies.
As of this writing, there are huge areas of the district--the entire state--that don't have power and aren't expected to have it until late Thursday or even early Friday. The electric company's web site has no estimate for when power will be restored to the school where I teach. The boil water advisory makes it doubly complicated--the cafeteria can't operate properly, but federal law states that when the school is open, it must provide free lunch for those who qualify for it.
The district is in a bind. If they call school off again now and power is restored overnight, they'll get yelled at for calling off school needlessly. If they wait until the last minute to cancel school, they get yelled at for not giving people enough time to plan for child care. We just got an email informing us that they're going to decide early in the morning. Yeesh.
It's been a stormy start to the year.
I did my two religious makeup days and used the time to make loads of lesson plans and a cornucopia of copies. I reset my classroom (what other job requires you to completely disassemble your office, including your computer system, and then set it up back up whenever you go on vacation?). Then we had two days of staff development. Then it was the weekend, and Monday we welcomed the students.
I have a section of mythology, three sections of English 12 (one of them co-taught with a special education teacher; the class is for students who struggle with English), and a section of English 9. First impressions? My mythology students will be fun. My freshmen will be a handful. And the co-taught English 12 will be surprisingly mellow. I was expecting more rowdiness from that class, but they were really chill. Which is cool.
I drove home--
--and the storm hit. Slammed into us, really. Winds at 70 MPH, sideways rain, continual lightning and thunder. I like thunderstorms, but this was a bit much even for me! But it passed after a few minutes, and things went back to normal.
And then we got the robocall. Turns out all of Wherever is without power AND is under a boil water advisory, to boot. School was cancelled for Tuesday.
I think that has to be the earliest school cancellation ever.
I feel I should point out that, in the entire time I lived in Wherever, our house never once lost power. Now that we've moved down to Ypsilanti, we STILL haven't lost power, and Wherever is in the dark. I take responsibility and offer my apologies.
As of this writing, there are huge areas of the district--the entire state--that don't have power and aren't expected to have it until late Thursday or even early Friday. The electric company's web site has no estimate for when power will be restored to the school where I teach. The boil water advisory makes it doubly complicated--the cafeteria can't operate properly, but federal law states that when the school is open, it must provide free lunch for those who qualify for it.
The district is in a bind. If they call school off again now and power is restored overnight, they'll get yelled at for calling off school needlessly. If they wait until the last minute to cancel school, they get yelled at for not giving people enough time to plan for child care. We just got an email informing us that they're going to decide early in the morning. Yeesh.
It's been a stormy start to the year.