Thoughts on a Sunday morning- re: riots and protests
As frightening as the events of the past week have been, I realized last night that I am grateful for one thing:
Schools are out.
To be clear, I am a middle school librarian, and do not expect any violence that our AP's and Principal (and parents) cannot handle. I think I am in a good place because our students are young enough to still be children, but old enough to wear their masks next Fall and take the Covid 19 virus seriously. My heart goes out to the Elementary teachers that will have to corral the tiny ones that are fidgety by nature, and pass around colds constantly all Fall and Winter.
If the anger- the riots, and the demonstrations continue into August, I fully expect to see problems on the university campuses. Having to see another Kent State is terrifying.
On a lighter, happier note- I cannot wait for the kiddos to come back. A media center without students is very depressing-- empty. I am a "loud librarian." I allow food and drinks in the media center (some people are appalled by that-- the kiddos love it), and run a maker space program complete with paper airplanes flying (force and motion- part of the curriculum), plants growing, green screen movies being made--- and frankly, the greatest collection of sparkly gel pens South of the Mississippi. I am excited that we can get back to "kind of normal" (not really, but it's better than nothing) in August.
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