By riverflows on Skatehive
'Send them all back to the office!', I joke, complaining abotu how many people are in the water surfing these days. Bloody pandemic. It made everyone migrate to the coast, made easier by WFH (work from home) deals. 'Everyone but us, right?' my friend Deb agrees. We're both teachers. It requires face to face. You can't teach kids online. They play games under the table. The pandemic made children behind. We're dealing with that now - kids who don't have basic math, or profess they didn't do any of the set work in nearly two years of totalitarian lockdowns. Half of them don't even know how to socialise. It was wierd teaching from home. In our small house, my husband taught science and math and physics in the loungeroom as he needed the table. I had Year 9's virtually in my bedroom. I took them to the chook shed once to show them the chooks as a reward. It was novel. Then I hated kids in my personal space. I learnt quickly to set them some work and turn off the screen and audio. I'd be he