TGIF: Approaching the finish line for a school year unlike none other
Gene Deason
Editor emeritus
Those of us who don’t routinely visit a school or university campus probably can’t appreciate what a difficult period the past 12 to 14 months have been. The COVID-19 pandemic forced education officials to make difficult decisions in uncertain times.
A family friend who’s in the same generation as our daughter, and who works for the same state agency but in different cities, asked me how she was enjoying “working from home.” I think I replied accurately when I said that it might be OK if her husband wasn’t having to work at home too, while they also took turns being remote teachers’ assistants to their second-grade son.