9-2-2021 Chad Farrell/Managing Editor

In a way it is hard to fathom that I am in my 9th year of teaching. And on the one hand it does not seem like that much has really changed.

On the other hand, so much has changed.

I am guessing that Covid has managed to touch your life in some way. Maybe you are one of the few, one of the lucky that has not had it. While others fight battles we have no idea about.

If it has done any good thing, it has put our daily lives into a different perspective. I hope. One that encourages us to slow down.

Say Please!

Say Thank you!

Tell those closest to you that you love them!

Education is good. It's why we are where we are today.

From a complete shutdown of school. To a year of over half the kids learning online. And back to classrooms being filled.

Most of the time anyway. When kids and teachers are not being quarantined. Kids shuffle in and out.

How to catch them up?

How to make sure they still have a decent high-school experience?

Because, God only knows it already did not seem that great to most kids you talk to.

Maybe my school days were easier. Maybe this push for academics, or the site of people being millionaires without a college degree simply speaks to people.

I get it. The world can be distracting. I wonder constantly what the end game is. The values that bind a cohesive society seem to splintering on every side.

Then add in a pandemic?

Who are we kidding?

The way in which we deliver information. The way in which we prepare kids for the next phase of their life. The way in which we do education needed to change.

I guess now we can move onto figuring that out.