GO3838
Well-Known Member
I saw there was a thread about movies/tv/books to recommend for isolation. but I'm interested in what to do.
If anyone had said to me a year ago that I could have two weeks off out of the classroom for full pay, I would have thought it would be fantastic.
But now that is a reality and not a hypothetical, I find it most unsettling.
There has never before been an ON government that closed all ON schools for 2 weeks.
I understand the logic of it: the virus is much less likely to spread if the classroom are shut down. But by shutting them all down, there will be a huge demand for childcare.
(And many daycares have shut down too, decreasing the supply of childcare even more.)
There will be so many parents who will have to stay home from work because they have no childcare.
And I can't help thinking about the most vulnerable students: many don't have a clean home with adequate nutrition. They are actually at greater risk of getting sick staying home than they would be at school, if school is cleaner and warmer, and where they can get the breakfast and lunch for learning.
But I will feel less unsettled and less anxious if I do things. For one thing, I could declutter. I had intended to make it my Lenten practise this year to remove one item every day for 40 days - declutter by recycling or giving away one item every day. However, I never managed to start. But now I can spend my March Break "binge decluttering" as a good Lenten practise and a good thing to do while in physical isolation.
Then after my March Break, I could do some babysitting. (My own teens are long past this age, so I'm talking about babysitting someone else's children.)
Some of my fellow teachers are saying that if we are going to be off with pay, then one thing we can do is provide free childcare for someone who needs to go to work, especially someone who works in healthcare and who might be really needed in the workforce.
Any other suggestions of things we can do while in physical isolation?
If anyone had said to me a year ago that I could have two weeks off out of the classroom for full pay, I would have thought it would be fantastic.
But now that is a reality and not a hypothetical, I find it most unsettling.
There has never before been an ON government that closed all ON schools for 2 weeks.
I understand the logic of it: the virus is much less likely to spread if the classroom are shut down. But by shutting them all down, there will be a huge demand for childcare.
(And many daycares have shut down too, decreasing the supply of childcare even more.)
There will be so many parents who will have to stay home from work because they have no childcare.
And I can't help thinking about the most vulnerable students: many don't have a clean home with adequate nutrition. They are actually at greater risk of getting sick staying home than they would be at school, if school is cleaner and warmer, and where they can get the breakfast and lunch for learning.
But I will feel less unsettled and less anxious if I do things. For one thing, I could declutter. I had intended to make it my Lenten practise this year to remove one item every day for 40 days - declutter by recycling or giving away one item every day. However, I never managed to start. But now I can spend my March Break "binge decluttering" as a good Lenten practise and a good thing to do while in physical isolation.
Then after my March Break, I could do some babysitting. (My own teens are long past this age, so I'm talking about babysitting someone else's children.)
Some of my fellow teachers are saying that if we are going to be off with pay, then one thing we can do is provide free childcare for someone who needs to go to work, especially someone who works in healthcare and who might be really needed in the workforce.
Any other suggestions of things we can do while in physical isolation?
- gotta say I never really understood that concept!
