Schools & The Dark Ages

 A pandemic is happening.  What was bad enough to shut down the entire fourth quarter of school in March is now exponentially worse, but we brought students back to school.

Here is a list of bullshit:

• I was quarantined for the first three days of school.  My test results came back negative, which is great, but by the time I got back to school, I had NO idea what was going on, because we have switched operating systems for storage and communication.
• When I was quarantined - waiting for results - my school district made me fill out the form to take 20 days off.  Now I have to just trust? hope? that they go back in and change it to three, not 20.
• P.S. No one in the district seems to have answers for anything related to COVID.  All we have is expensive, laminated signs saying to "wash your hands" and "socially distance".  Oh, and we got watered-down disinfectant of some kind to clean the tables every 50 minutes.  Everything else is ... loose.
• Google Classroom might be user-friendly, IF someone had taught me to use it.  
• Google Classroom isn't entirely ready to be used (functionality), even though the school was shut down for SIX MONTHS because of summer/COVID time.
• Google Classroom doesn't work for students with Android phones.
• Our hall passes are now electronic - they don't work.
• Everyone is wearing a mask, but we are NOWHERE near the six feet of social distancing.  Kids are sitting directly next to each other, all over the building.
• The halls and stairwells are (as always) packed.
• The lunch room is a fucking joke.  Kids are packed in there before school to wait for a bell to release them.  During lunch, students are NOT socially distanced, and the "system" in place to attempt that distance makes it so some students don't even have time to eat their food.  Or they end up sitting ON THE FLOOR in the hallways to eat. 
• I volunteered to teach a remote class, and I have been given little to no instruction on how to do it.  Also, the website isn't ready to go remote.  Also, we're the last school district in our area to "be committed to 100% in-person learning", so what are we going to do when the whole school has to go remote (probably in a matter of days)??
• I had to move classrooms over the summer, and I am missing EVERY ONE of my file folders that contain ALL of the things I've collected over the past 17 years.  They are just gone.  M.I.A.
• One of our students posted a picture of the overcrowding in the cafeteria and now he's in the cross-hairs of a school that's trying to tell the public one thing, when reality is something different.  

Happy Friday, America.