This is not good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-blood-clots/?

I also think about this. My hope is that the nomenclature may change - online schooling will take a new name and we traditionalists will remain "homeschooled."

I don't think it's any worse. Second Pfizer last week.

Cross-posted with General Education. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/technology/remote-learning-online-school.html? This raises so many questions and there won't be good data on outcomes for years. Plessy vs Ferguson. As it's tax-payer funded, will localities begin to compensate caregivers whose children are enrolled? One of the comments pinpoints that paying one history teacher per district will be far cheaper than one per grade. All those years of what about socialization? I guess zoom is the new community. Thoughts?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/technology/remote-learning-online-school.html? This raises so many questions and there won't be good data on outcomes for years. Plessy vs Ferguson. As it's tax-payer funded, will localities begin to compensate caregivers whose children are enrolled? One of the comments pinpoints that paying one history teacher per district will be far cheaper than one per grade. All those years of what about socialization? I guess zoom is the new community.

Moved over 1000 books to our sauna to deep clean the house. Spring cleaning + Covid + hubby gone for two weeks = makeover-level cleaning. Never been done, may never do again.

yum.

This feels so so sad to me. Apply some critical thinking here, as I say to my kids. "Online exploration" will only lead you right back down your accursed rabbit hole. @Ordinary Shoes is telling you a fact. She has no reason to lie. She is offering you a hand to climb out. Don't look back.

UGA should have an Office of Disability Services or similar that may be able to guide you, or point you to a person/place that can help. Or, do you have a contact that you like at Kennesaw who could help? If she has accommodations there, I assume they are already familiar with her 504?

You have kids, right? Not a wimp!

Getting a second shot today, I'll see if it affects my pretty severe tinnitus. Mine is definitely worse from coffee, which means it's worse every day!

No advice, but thank you for posting this picture - I've just been researching cellular blinds and these look great.

You probably know this from DD's condition, but "true"seizures in babies can look like brief muscle spasms or even "different" facial expressions. Febrile convulsions (non-dangerous) are usually a function of how fast the fever spikes, not how high it goes and they look like full-on convulsive seizures. Gently, even though I'm usually a fever-is-your-friend kind of mom, I would consider taking him to the ER for possible seizure activity.

Yummmm. All of the lamb descriptions are helping my post-Easter meal planning...

They are leading you to a basket filled with mermaid-shaped peeps, of course.

Whipped cream and strawberries for dessert. No shortcake, just cut to the chase.

Dd showed me pictures of the girls at the dorm making little turtles and hedgehogs from brioche dough, so now I've requested dh make some dough and we will make creatures.

What are you eating tomorrow? I've been in quarantine from traveling, today is my day to shop after my negative test. It's looking like ham, roasted sweet potatoes, beet salad, and spicy greens from the freezer.

Love these.

This. Dh was very young when we first met and we never argued for years. Finally the time came when I was quite hurt by a fairly trivial interaction and his "I'm sorry you feel that way" just floored me - worse than the original hurt. It took a few more years for him to unlearn this phrase, and now we only say it very ironically and only to each other.

I found this article pretty spot-on. The good news: our brains will start working again! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/what-pandemic-doing-our-brains/618221/

With deep respect for your initiative and desire to give service to homeschooling families, I have to say I would never want my kids to use this platform, and I'm grateful they will all be done with college before it becomes required via this for-profit start-up or the Common App. I detest feeding machine learning (and investors) with either direct engagement or digital exhaust, which is why I don't have a smart phone or social media. Having thrown that down, I can certainly see why many people will love this idea for the same reason people like targeted ads. Not my preferred future. Please forgive me for not responding with helpful suggestions as you requested, but this is my honest reaction.

Not a sci-fi version but a new track, like the current versions of manufacturing/trades vs college track or four-year vs cc.

I completely agree they are not equivalent, not at all. What I think the future will hold is not my preferred future.

This is one of the points of an Ivy. I think this generation of kids is in the middle of an hour-glass shaped phenomenon: earlier generations of (mostly White) kids experienced a wider funnel to college because of things like institutional racism keeping the applicant pool smaller, well-paid union jobs and functioning unions which allowed a better standard of living than today's service jobs for non-college graduates, fewer women in the work force so less need for higher education, less focus on consumerism via social media-based online tracking, etc. Now unions are demonized and have lost much of their former power while institutional racism is alive and well and manifests itself in college admissions as a variety of barriers to programs, funding, and less inherited wealth and social capital accumulation. More women than men are applying to and attending college, and the future of all work is in turmoil as machine learning, mechanization, and financial engineering push the economy in a new direction. The very real anxiety produced by this turmoil that is beyond any of our individual abilities to control or end has generated a flood of college applications and created this tiny isthmus through which many many more kids are trying desperately to pass. My guess is that in the future when the new economy has shaken itself out a bit that online college ("training") will open the other end of the funnel, and the majority of young people will attend online. But movers and shakers still move and shake in person. Inherited wealth still requires meeting (and moving and shaking with!) a spouse, and that the traditional brick and mortar schools will continue to be places where the moneyed classes meet each other. Prediction: Online options will flourish, in-person college will become even more exclusive, and the Ivies will start a widely followed trend of full time, on-line college to capture the emerging market's anxiety. This is already happening, I'm just predicting it will become the norm.