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Dr Kirk and Humberto recap the pandemic.


00:00 Intro

01:31 What happened pre-lockdown in February?

31:57 What happened in early March?

1:00:16 When did Dr. Kirk start the transition to teaching online?

1:04:59 What was it like having a young child during lockdown?


January 27, 2023

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Anonymous

Listening to these episodes is therapeutic for me. I was teaching, my last year in the classroom. I was planning to leave the profession, the pandemic just assured me I was making the right move. After 15 years as an elementary teacher I am reaching my third year as an LAC in Arkansas. I have not spent much time reflecting on that last year and how we didn’t know what was coming. We dismissed for spring break one week early. Friday, March 13, 2020 is when the lock down began here. I can recall telling my first graders I would see them after spring break ( 2weeks). I felt this would pass just like all the flus and viruses have in the past. Little did I know I would never get to tell those 25 six-year-olds goodbye and have a good summer and I can’t wait to see you next year! As I was listening to this episode I noticed some feeling I have not worked through. I have only seen a 2-3 of those students. I never returned to education after that year. I was already burned out and that school year was REALLY ROUGH! Through lots of therapy and my own therapist encouragement to get out there and take my NCE I am where I am now. Much more life satisfaction and balance. I love the podcast and it helps me professionally and personally. Thank you for producing such meaningful content!

Anonymous

Yaay I'll always be part of the podcast's history by being the Italian girl who first wrote in about the pandemic in full panic 😂 could be worse! Now everyone's taking off their masks, and honestly I don't feel comfortable at all. I was born a hypocondriac, and I've found masks to be extremely calming and reassuring when I'm around too many people. I just hope that, now that they've become an everyday thing, they will remain a socially acceptable option for crowded situations. On public transportation, for instance, but I'm also keeping my mask on in class when I teach. Children are unbeatable germ vessels! Because of my job as a teacher, however, I can recognise many of the characteristics you've pointed out in younger kids. I remember during our first post-lockdown summer camp, in June 2021, a group of 6-year-olds were coloring on their books and weren't able to pinpoint the correlation between the wind blowing and the pages of their books turning. My first thought was "gosh, these kids are dumb" but then I realized that most families didn't have access to outdoor spaces during lockdown, and the wind can work in a pretty bizarre way if you've barely interacted with it during your first years of life. Their physical contact with each other has greatly changed as well. And of course it's become increasingly easy to discern kids who have a strong support system around them and kids who are mostly left on their own, because the pandemic only expanded the gap already existing between these different categories. However, I don't think Kirk's sge has "caught up": we've all changed our rhythms (we're simply out of habit) and we've re-evaluated our fomo. Otherwise, I'd be forced to accept that my 28 years have caught up with someone else's 50s, and I'm not ready to face that hard truth! 😂 By the way, side note that has nothing to do with the topic: it's so funny that you find it commonplace to have students with kids. Here in Italy we have such a different perception of what must be done at a certain age! Anyone with a kid while still being in school, even university, is sometimes seen as a miracle worker or, way more often, as an irresponsible youngster incapable of handling responsibilities properly and inevitably bound to fail. Interesting!