Well, David, that is ridiculous. Poor you and Matilda and JZ. I feel like Dana- how can they just leave it blank?. And, if all schools except the super duper special ones were good schools, this wouldn't be happening (duh) because it wouldn't matter so much. And as a strategy to get more wealthy people into the underperforming schools, it doesn't seem like a great stategy, because if you were wealthy, wouldn't you just pick up and go to private school?

Do they get a chance to move as a sophomore? Is there an online school she can attend for a year, or a home school group?

That whole situation sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

That's what happened when I tried to place Emmett for elementary school. Basically the majority Asian neighborhoods sued saying the district was in effect trying to capture race with their "diversity index" and that was illegal. They wanted to invest in their local schools and build them up.

They were successful in that suit, and the school district had to throw out literally all of their school assignments two weeks before school started. Which is why I had no leverage with EM when she said, "Get him into a good school in SF or I'm placing him in Albany." He was not placed anywhere to start first grade in SF.

And as a strategy to get more wealthy people into the underperforming schools, it doesn't seem like a great stategy, because if you were wealthy, wouldn't you just pick up and go to private school?

That's exactly what happens. Upper middle class families either move out of SF or put their kids in private school.

A huge number of Matilda's friends who have been in public school with her since kindergarten will be moving into private school for high school.

Does anyone need an onerous task day soon? I have to do two things- call Spectrum and cancel my internet which they never actually provided (I never cancelled frontier, and though it is terrible, it exists. My work also got me a hotspot). I also have to call my dress Netflx, Gwynnie Bee, because I don't need new dresses to wear when I am not in the office. Frankly I have been wearing the same dress all week when no one sees me. I have been putting these things off since March.

Also we opened at 10am yesterday and someone overdosed in the bathroom at 12:30. (He was fine; we haven't lost one yet.)

So, same old, same old?

I had a friend in grad school who was also a volunteer fireman/EMT. At the time (c. 1980) he was 0/10 at CPR.

I found a brown spider the size of Rhode Island in my bedroom a couple months ago.

That's a big spider. Usually only ice bergs are that big. And also XKCD's Frewquently Made Comparisons Monster.

That whole situation sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

My thoughts exactly. What a strange situation. Although, I'll still be teaching online at one school in the fall, this is all becoming quantum mechanically strange. (Don't mind me. I had to completely rerecord a lecture today (on quantum mechanics, no less) because the audio on original take was out of sync with the video, making a truly confusin subject even moreso.)

I also can't believe you don't have help with that stuff, DX. My whole job has exploded because every professor has an instructional design partner to help with both planning and getting IT support, as well as figuring out how to do virtual labs and simulations. We were lucky because our RN-BS program was already online so we already had a lot of resources. In the fall we get to do clinicals and labs online, but "didactic" content will still be online and we have to figure out all these movement patterns so the labs can be disinfected and we only have 10 people at a time!

It's not that I don't have IT help. The online learning people at the community college are knowledgeable and helpful, plus I do know how to use the apps. I've been helping my teaching partner get through this. It's just that the apps aren't very good.

Kaltura capture missynced the video because I had to nerve to have Firefox open in another Window (my bad). Now I know better. Our online learning system (Blackboard) has notifications turned off for reasons at the BoR level, so I never know if a student has posted stuff to our message board unless I actually remember to drill down and look.

Wow, Trump retweeted agreement with himself.

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I mean, seriously dude?

Wow that's....special, Gud. Yikes.

Good evening! I took a 3 or 4 mile walk (with a lot of hills) with a friend. I don't think I'd seen her since March--she runs a daycare and has been open the whole time, but we walked with masks and had a good time catching up. And then on my way home I stopped because the elote guy was out! Hot fresh elote with mayo and cheese and spice! YUM.

My sister is raising her multiracial grandchild out in the country. She just sent me his performance (they had opening night, but not others) from Into the Woods, which was great. Except they cast the black kid as The Wolf! Really! In an all white school, because basically the county I grew up in was all white. . All the kids are white except him.