Covid-Free Schools are Possible!
A school in Texas has been 100% Covid-free with zero learning loss. They used good masks indoors (N95 or better) with no ‘mask breaks.’ Everyone eats outdoors even in the…
Marie Snyder
On Anti-Racist Educating Provoking Bullying of White Kids
Addressing a local concern about bullying: I’m very sorry to hear about any child’s bullying experience in school. Bullying of any kind has no place in our schools, but we’ve…
On Showing My Cards
I’m showing them!! People keep telling me not to let people know what I stand for until after the election, and that doesn’t sit well with me. Others have told…
We Need to Discuss Systemic Racism in Schools
In The Record article, “Waterloo Region District School Board Trustee Mike Ramsay speaks up about sanctions against him,” Mr. Ramsay writes that he is concerned that education has shifted from…
Masked and Vaxed in School
Q. Do you support bringing back masks mandates for schools, defying provincial orders, if necessary? Do you support your board demanding that the province add vaccination for Covid to the…
Tossed My Hat in the Ring
I officially put my name forward to campaign to be a Trustee for WRDSB, Waterloo/Wilmot area. I’m confident in my ability to be a Trustee. I can read difficult and…
3QD: Tossing the Canon in a Cannon
I’ve started contributing to 3 Quarks Daily once each month. Here’s my first: Tossing the Canon in a Cannon – about choosing philosophers to read that aren’t posthumously tainted by…
On Claims of Porn in Schools
There’s a call to arms on a social media from a few people who think the memoir in graphic novel form, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir pronouns), should be…
A Plague of Willful Incompetence
This The Tyee article, “Get Ready for the Forever Plague,” by Andrew Nikiforuk, hits all the important notes about our ongoing pandemic. He says that we’re dealing with a “plague…
Covid and Climate Change: Similar Rationalizations, Different Intensity
I was searching through YouTube looking for things to include in my career retrospective, mainly looking for a clip of an old CKCO show, What’s Your Point/The Final Round, from…
Last Day of Teaching – Ever!
Well, never say never. But I’m officially done at KCI, at any rate, where I spent part of my grade 13 year as a student back in ’85, then was…
Open Letter to Universities Removing Mask Mandates
Open Letter to Dr. Deborah MacLatchy, PhD, President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, president@wlu.ca, and Dr. Vivek Goel, CM, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, president@uwaterloo.ca RE:…
In Conversation with Richard Marsh
After writing about the Klondike Papers originally, my little blog got a ridiculous number of hits very briefly but just long enough for Richard Marsh to notice and fact-check my…
And on to LongCovid
Masks are all but gone in my neck of the woods. A couple stores have employees that wear them, but not many, and then very few customers do. The people…
On Expertise
We’ve grown to develop an anti-expertise view in society. I imagine it might have something to do with a do-it-yourself mentality born of individualism and capitalism. I can work harder…
Russia’s Hunger Plan
This Timothy Snyder (historian specializing in genocide) thread is unnerving: “Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage…
Klondike Papers
I’m just getting my head around it all here. But I’ve watched lots of videos and read lots of threads, and here’s what seems to be happening in as brief…
On Masks and Narcissism
I was reading a random woman’s social media feed as she was considering that an increase in narcissism might be to blame for masking issues, and I nodded along to…
Love and Sorrow
I’ve recently started reading Martha Crawford’s blog and following her on Twitter. She’s a therapist in remission from cancer. I want to keep this particularly beautiful and timely thread to…
A Bit More on Burnout
I was listening to VoicEd.ca last week (Wednesdays at 8:45 am), and they recommended Lynn Thomas’s post on resilience and burnout summarized from a talk by Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe. I…