My school has shut down to students, but we are still required to report to the building. We started our disorganized remote learning program today, which involved calling each student multiple times in the course of four hours to go over their assignments (from their textbooks that they brought home on Friday and packets that haven’t even reached them yet as they were only mailed out yesterday). One problem is we only have 20 lines going out of the building, so only 20 of us (out of a staff of 50-60) can be on the phone at any given time. We are supposed to stick to a strict schedule, but there’s no way when there’s only 20 lines. Besides the fact that there’s only maybe 30 actual phones in the whole building. We have to rotate. So in reality, students are only getting10-15 mins of instruction time for each subject. I guess that’s true of ALL schools right now though.

Many of my coworkers are upset that we are still being required to come in. I’ve heard through the grapevine that some are calling the governor’s office to report the situation, as he has ordered all non essential businesses to close. We are considered non essential, being that we absolutely could be doing work from home if the hospital (my school is affiliated with a behavioral health hospital) would allow it. I guess they’re not seeing the need for it as the hospital itself is obviously an essential business. Anyway, it’s only a matter of time before our governor orders a total quarantine like Italy, based on the fact that cases are at least doubling, if not tripling every day. So...

Anyway I have a LOT of anxiety about this situation and I’m sure all of you do too, this has been my dumping ground but I realize not everyone wants to hear about it so after this I will not be talking about it any more. Hope everyone stays safe!