School Mask Mandates Have Lifted, but Covid Isn’t Over for Students and Teachers – The New York Times

“I really feel scared to say that we’ve turned a corner,” she said. “The things that we were struggling with, even outside of Covid, are just still there.”

In Ms. Barros’s classroom at the Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, many students require intensive support. One boy didn’t attend a single virtual class as a sixth grader or return when the school building reopened last spring. It’s Ms. Barros’s job to keep him tethered to school.

When another student started clutching a stuffed toy shaped like an avocado, Ms. Barros didn’t press her for a reason. And when one of Ms. Barros’s top students started having panic attacks in class, she helped come up with a plan to calm her heavy breathing. Her school has noticed an uptick in thoughts of self-harm, negative self-talk and meltdowns. More students are asking to see the counselor.

Two years into the upheaval, teachers are depleted. On top of the needs in their classrooms, teachers and their unions have faced scrutiny over school shutdowns, vaccine and mask mandates and Covid safety protocols, leading to labor strife in Chicago and elsewhere.

Some teachers have begun having doubts about their ability to keep going. As three colleagues departed midyear for higher-paying jobs outside the classroom, Ms. Barros, who has taught for four years in Tulsa, found herself scrolling job listings earlier this winter. Like most, she’s sticking it out. “For a while, I was in that victim mentality of ‘woe is me,’ but I do have choices,” she said. “And I’m choosing to stay because I love this.”

But America’s schools remain fragile. As teachers catch their breath after the latest wave of Covid cases, many are teetering between cautious optimism and lingering exhaustion.

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2- X is for X-ray-vision

Words from Walden

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

Kim Edwards-

X is for X-ray vision.

If you could choose a superpower what would it be?

How about X-ray vision, the ability to fly, super-human strength, time travel or teleportation? How about all of the above?

When we go inside and sit in the empty, dark void, shutting out the 3-D sensory world, that is exactly the time when we can work on such superpowers. Limitless possibilities in the quantum field can be manufactured in the alchemy of our mind. We can time travel, see places that we normally can’t see with our eyes open, and visualize things that no-body can.

Lucid dreaming and Astral projections are two well-documented ways to have all of these amazing superpowers become real (I have not had the pleasure of these experiences yet). If you have tried either lucid…

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Has Writing Changed Your Life?

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I have been writing for as long as I can remember, as a child I knew something I could do extremely well; I had the ability to tell a story, I had a way with words, I always carried a notebook and would write everything down. I could be having the worst day, and once I started writing I could forget about everything. It was just me and my words. It was my escape from reality.

I just knew that one day I would want to go public and express my thoughts and emotions with the world and here I am doing that.

Eventually, writing became this different thing for me all together.

I discovered blogging. I discovered writing online. And I discovered how to live a better life and to have an impact on others. I have also learned so many things about myself and writing has become something…

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The cry for help in times of need is heard by Ukraine

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The world is watching, When Ukraine is destroyed, millions of people flee, Great countries condemn! the fine gentlemen beat themselves to the chest! and grant sanctions!Unfortunately, that does not help! big words! is good but now action is required! explain to the children of ukraine who spoil the family and parents! yes! the world condemned the war! but they chose to save their own skin.

Everyone who escapes from their bombed-out houses and all their dreams has no help from the countries! sitting in meetings and granting sanctions and stifling assets, they need protection and military action in the country. But they are too cowardly to act, Help the people of Ukraine! Fear of a great war! good morning world! The war is already Here!

A country burns people die, the world will watch when an entire country and population is exterminated. The Great War is here to stop it…

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Parashat Tzav and Equity?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Tzav, is the 25th sedra, so almost halfway through the annual cycle, and the 2nd Parashah in the book of Vayikra/Leviticus.

 

      This week, Moshe/Moses is told to Command/Order the people concerning sacrifices, and to consecrate Aaron and his sons as a hierarchical and hereditary priesthood.  But what if we all took upon ourselves the obligation of building an equally responsible society, rather than one based on hierarchy?  What could equity of responsibility and citizenry look like?

  I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this matter, Thoughtful Readers.

We can really  Do Better.

-Shira   

 

     Parashat VaYikra on Shabbat Zachor, and Emotional Self-defense? was last week…

Action Prompts:

    Share your thoughts on how to build buy-in create a more equal, or at least less inequitable, society, please.   Writing, by the way, is my…

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