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Optional days have been a real mess, leaving most of us less certain about our safety and the plans our District has for handling things. .
We’re in a similar place. One of my teammates was absent yesterday. He said that he had a bad headache and cough, so he took the day off to go get tested. We were told that we do not need to wear masks while alone in our classroom, but I had others come into my room with no masks, or I had to quickly grab my mask and put it on when others entered. My other teammate needs a lot of reassurance with technology, so he would come in, no mask, and pull up a chair right next to me. I’m not optimistic about how long in-person school will last.
Good to see he tested negative. I haven’t been in our building since I dropped of tomatoes back when we were still planting them instead of picking and pulling them. The guy next to me still doesn’t seem to get it, from what I’m hearing. Just like your teammate. If he did that to me, I couldn’t go home.
After three days of inservice meetings, I’m still not certain about what I’m going to be asked to do. There’s another meeting in about an hour that should finally answer questions. Everyone keeps kicking the can down to the next person right now. There’s another teacher at our school in a similar situation. We’ve been in contact the past few days, she’s been going through the exact same things I have been. Not sure if that’s good, but at least the district has been consistently ham handed.
I’m sure it’s the same everywhere that decided to open, and not much better for places that decided to go virtual. We don’t have the staffing for the kids we have in school, and the online options don’t have the staffing to handle those kids either. If one or two of our in person teachers are out sick, the whole house of cards falls down.
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Hope everyone got through last night’s storms in one piece. I sure seemed like if you got rain, you got hammered with thunder and lightning all night. We got enough to make a puddle here. That’s how it’s been all year: Adams gets rain; Plainsfield gets rain; we get nothing. When there’s big storms like last night, that’s great, but we really need water for our plants and lawn.
Got two FTF on 5/5s yesterday and I hold had to wade through swampy brush for an hour. Found both caches in their original iterations, but had to replace two new caches because the CO just republished ones that were archived. I was surprised because I told him one of them was just an empty coffee can with nothing in it and no lid – which led him to archive them in the first place. At least now there are actually caches there and the coffee can is gone.
School stuff:
This school year is going to be very different. I believe I will be teaching online classes through the company our school uses for kids that won’t be coming to school, but still be employed by AF. The school may also need me to teach my kids that are going to be in school a few minutes every day.
We’re on our third schedule already, this one really has me thinking about how to create material for the kids to work on. We have one 90-minute class and two 2-hour long classes each day. The long ones meet for six weeks, then two other classes meet for six weeks. (Our “normal” schedule is a 5 period day, classes 70 minutes long, and a trimester system of 12 weeks each.)
The original thought was we would be on a hybrid system with kids only in class 2 days each week, so I spent the summer working on material to meet that. Then, we were going to rotate through our five periods during the week with three classes each day.
To me, I morally can’t use our normal curriculum because it is centered around groups of 4 doing cooperative learning with shared materials, in-group and intra-group sharing of ideas. When that works, it’s great. Not that it happens often in a normal classroom setting. Now…no way I would do that. I made packets to cover the core ideas, but it’s not nearly enough to take 2 hours x 5 days a week.
I’m also the only one teaching Geometry, so nobody else to lean on for ideas. Of our 4-member department, I’m not physically there, one is on maternity leave, one is a couple years older than me and worried about getting sick during one of his last years before retiring, and the last one doesn’t think COVID is anything to really worry about (due to our sparse population density, not the potency of the virus). The last guy would be in the room next to me and he hasn’t been wearing a mask while working in the school during the summer, while the custodial staff has been disinfecting the school.
Enough venting. Maybe a chance to get a nap in before we have our first official inservice day. Optional days have been a real mess, leaving most of us less certain about our safety and the plans our District has for handling things. That’s a whole other rant, and I said I’m done.
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But I never get enough :ftp:
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Does anyone want ducks btw? Free! We have 7 too many.
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Duck house 1 is finished – well, my wife hasn’t signed off on it yet, but it’s assembled and useable. Spent an hour edging around my shop to get rid of nails, screws and glass that have been surfacing where I drive in/out with the tractor and then dug around the base of a maple tree where we found the parts of three glass jars yesterday. We keep asking, “Who lives like this?” Every time we do work around the property we find broken glass, scraps of metal and various nail, etc.
Big day for birds today! I opened the ends of the fencing that kept our duck family separated from our geese and other ducks. There’s been some “friendly competition” between the drakes wanting wanting what they can’t have, and the fence kept them safely staring across the fence at what they want but can’t have. So far, so good. After a little bit of quacking and flapping and running, they’re back into their normal groupings and leaving each other alone. With acres to roam, I think space will give them a way to keep away from each other.
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I posted a message on the cache page about this but the Virtual at the veterans’ home in King needs to be disabled
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Heck no! Had to open my eyes and ears to listen to rawevil on WPR at 6 AM! It was a good listen!
Yeah, I meant to do that, but didn’t quite make it.
Do what I do, listen to the podcast!
Waiting for a phone call from my superintendent that may determine if I’m teaching in Adams this year or not. Not sure what I’ve shared here, but because of my son’s health issues, because the school had decided to open up “full time in-person” I’ve told them that I’d like to be allowed to do virtual teaching. I’ve been working all summer to prepare for the possibility that our entire school would be virtual, but I guess I don’t understand the politics of our school board yet. If they won’t work to accommodate this, I won’t be working there. Legally, I’m in no-man’s land because it isn’t my personal health that is directly at risk. Ethically…
He and I had a very heartfelt conversation on the phone on Monday, but I have no idea what direction this will go. I’ve been waiting all week, and either he forgot to call me back or they haven’t had a decision until now (I’m guessing it’s the former because there is so much up in the air right now). Now, I’ve been waiting three hours and this is just about more than I can take.
If the school is good with this, then I’m set to go. I dearly want to continue working at Adams, with the kids there along with a great staff. We’re finally into a house that we could make into something that’s our own.
If not, we put this house on the market and try to move back into my dad’s house in the COVID hotspot of Marinette. Completely not where my family should go, but its about our only option.
We also had to do a run to Onalaska today to have some moles on our daughter checked out. Growing and turning colors at 19. Best news of the week is that the doctor didn’t feel the need to biopsy, but keep watching them and come back in a year at the latest, sooner if there are changes.
Too hot to go look for caches that involve long walks, and 5 hours of driving means I don’t want to drive to get anything. Maybe it’s time to go fishing again.
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FTP for Thursday. Rumbles of thunder and light rain right now.
Once again, Rapids is getting hit with a red blob and we will probably get nothing out of it. We really need the rain down here.
My four closest unfound caches (and these are so much closer than many of you would reference for your “closest unfound”) are two challenge caches that involve going around the state and I may never qualify for, once that has been referenced and “probably under water” for a year, and then one that is a nice walk through a local public land area. I may have time for the last one today if I don’t get sent to Wild Rose again.
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Rereading the message and I think I have a better understanding for what JW was trying to tell me (I’m awake now). Thanks Jim
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JW was the review for my latest cache. Just message that account directly?
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Where do I go if I have a couple questions about puzzle cache reviews? Not complaining, just thinking.
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Just throwing this out there – I do not like the souvenir hunts involving filters.
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We finally got some rain early this morning, so I’ve been out doing some much needed work in the gardens. While crouched below one of the hummingbird feeders, I suddenly heard what sounded like a buzzsaw over my head. Nope, one of the hummers No matter how often I experience that, I’m always surprised at how loud such a tiny thing can get.
I thought it was just us that was missing all the rain. It seems to break up or go just south or north of us all the time. I was driving to a heart checkup in Tomah, so I drove through it, but my wife said we had strong winds and some hail.
Checkup was to see if my heart shows signs of the arrhythmia our daughter has. Our school is looking to open up full time with students (up to 24 per classroom at the high school) and I was hoping that my heart would be bad. If I go in to teach with kids, I would have to quarantine myself from my family due to our son’s immunodeficiencies. Effectively, in order to keep my job, I would need to remove myself from our home and live somewhere else for a year. My understanding of the applicable laws is that I would be able to have the school accomodate my needs if the medical condition was for me, but because it’s my family members, the school could tell me to teach or take a hike. I’m not leaving my family for a year.
That’s how life has been the past few years. We sell the house in Dellwood, and then this happens. I really can’t believe they think in-person is the way to go right now, but then again, that’s the politics of the county.
On a happier note, I was placing a cache yesterday and I think I found what was left of an old cache. I wish there was a way to see archived caches in an area without needing to go through cacher profiles. Great location, should be a nifty puzzle once I get it done. Two others are in the works too. I better get working on them before I have to get back to Census work today. Maybe I’ll place a few more…
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I’ve hidden a few, just need people to solve the puzzles that live in the state to find them.
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Sorry about the confusion with our AL. We’ve struggled with understanding how they work, but after having done a few now, we get it. It’s not the most intuitive program, but it’s improved some since they first started appearing. Ours does require them to be completed in order, which will make sense when you do it, if you give it another try. The Hiawatha statue is being removed sometime soon, so it’s good you got that one now. We also know that another area cacher is working on an AL, so maybe you’ll have a couple on your next trip here!
I thought they worked like Whereigo – that I needed to be a certain distance from the dot to get the checkmark and be allowed to go to the next spot. It was especially frustrating because the closer I was to the building, the farther the GPS put me into the parking lot. I actually got to within 3′ once, but never to the 0′ I thought I needed. The problem was with me, not with the AL.
I was wondering about the statue at the other one!
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