Open Georgia
Today was Day 2 of Kemp’s “Open Georgia” policy experiment, meaning no mandated restrictions related to the pandemic, that overrides local authorities like Atlanta to maintain its stay-at-home order. Georgia...
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Food Glorious Food
by GlobetrotterATL
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Yesterday was another lockdown grocery day. Trying to maintain food normalcy for my kids in these times. Luckily, our eating habits have always been pretty simple and homebound. But grocery...
Earth Day Trepidation
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“Front-Runner for Country’s Dumbest Governor to Reopen Essential Bowling Alleys, Nail Salons Friday” and “Georgia Leads the Race to Become America’s No. 1 Death Destination” – How do I explain...
Shrinking Their World
by GlobetrotterATL
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APS is giving up on this school year. And I pretty much have too. Yeseterday, the Superintendent announced that the last weeks of school will consist of four days a...
Coping with Dystopia
by GlobetrotterATL
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To open or not to open, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to social distance and quarantine for the sake of our families and the vulnerable among us or...
Wellness Check
by GlobetrotterATL
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“You are the principal of your own school. Your kids are fantastic and you are doing a great job. Just do what you can do and everything else will sort...
Parents are not OK
by GlobetrotterATL
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Viruses — pandemics — expose and exacerbate the existing dynamics of a society — good and bad. They are like a fun-house mirror, grossly reflecting ourselves back to us. One...
No Going Back
by GlobetrotterATL
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The collective scream you hear from school parents in the state of Georgia is the news from Gov. Kemp that there will be no more in-person schooling for the remainder...
Helping the Kids Be Alright
by GlobetrotterATL
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Weeks of social distancing and the news turning grim and grimmer has taken its toll on the kids. Overall, however, the kids seem to be taking everything amazingly well and...
A Marathon, Not A Sprint
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The First Week: Scrambling We survived. . . and in some ways I can say even thrived during The First Week of mandated distance learning. It was a scramble to...