2. As a career public school educator without kids, it’s idk, helpful? For me to read about how you’re processing Jane’s first week. I think that the transition for kids AND PARENTS from elementary to middle school is probably also pretty terrifying, which is something I forget. Of course parents are constantly pulling up memories of what their schools were like—what other context do they have? So, thanks.
3. Speaking of middle school and Lana del Rey—I am in charge of the music that plays through the school’s PA system during the passing period when there’s one minute until class is going to start. This gaggle of 8th graders started hounding me, like getting passes out of class to come to the library multiple times per day, to play some super depressing Lana song during passing period. I milked it for weeeeeks, and got them to run errands, clean up, peer pressure each other into being nicer, etc. They were bugging me during a passing period when it finally started playing, and the ringleader stopped talking mid-sentence and got the wildest look in her eyes. Then they all just turned around and went to class. No thank yous. Just obedience. It was amazing.
jane’s first day sounds like it was a success! i’m thrilled (and relieved).
re:masking, cedars-sinai sent out an email saying that they will be requiring masks again starting 9/1. i went to my dentist yesterday and his office is in a giant several stories high office building (it’s across the street from the OG SoHo House in West Hollywood for reference). anyways, i consider it a medical building (it’s mostly doctors and dentists per the directory, and as such i wore a mask. the only other person i encountered from the parking garage to the dental chair was my hygienist. sigh.
1. Hi!
2. As a career public school educator without kids, it’s idk, helpful? For me to read about how you’re processing Jane’s first week. I think that the transition for kids AND PARENTS from elementary to middle school is probably also pretty terrifying, which is something I forget. Of course parents are constantly pulling up memories of what their schools were like—what other context do they have? So, thanks.
3. Speaking of middle school and Lana del Rey—I am in charge of the music that plays through the school’s PA system during the passing period when there’s one minute until class is going to start. This gaggle of 8th graders started hounding me, like getting passes out of class to come to the library multiple times per day, to play some super depressing Lana song during passing period. I milked it for weeeeeks, and got them to run errands, clean up, peer pressure each other into being nicer, etc. They were bugging me during a passing period when it finally started playing, and the ringleader stopped talking mid-sentence and got the wildest look in her eyes. Then they all just turned around and went to class. No thank yous. Just obedience. It was amazing.
jane’s first day sounds like it was a success! i’m thrilled (and relieved).
re:masking, cedars-sinai sent out an email saying that they will be requiring masks again starting 9/1. i went to my dentist yesterday and his office is in a giant several stories high office building (it’s across the street from the OG SoHo House in West Hollywood for reference). anyways, i consider it a medical building (it’s mostly doctors and dentists per the directory, and as such i wore a mask. the only other person i encountered from the parking garage to the dental chair was my hygienist. sigh.