Back in person for school board meeting last night. I could’ve done virtual, and I think Kevin would have preferred that — with Delta rising, he’d rather we started being more cautious again. But it makes a difference, I think, being in the room, especially if some are in-person and some are virtual. As a […]
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It is disheartening how much of this 4-hr required training for school board members is essentially ‘cover your ass,’ or ‘how to not get sued.’ There’s also an enormous amount of time talking about how you can fire teachers / admin, and what the legal restrictions are on doing so. There is nothing on how
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Kavi and I walked to the lake the first evening and just hung out there for a while. I asked her if she’d still hang out with her mom in a few years, or if she would be too cool for that. Kavi said I was pretty cool, so she didn’t think she’d ever be
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When COVID hit, a lot of us started referring to healthcare workers as heroes. I think some of that has gotten lost a little, in the year-and-a-half we’ve all collectively endured. We’re all tired, I know, but we can’t forget this. We owe them. I have a lot of healthcare folks in my immediate family
School board meeting tonight; among other things, I’ve been assigned to (volunteered for) three committees in addition to regularly bimonthly meetings: • Instruction • Facilities (a new committee) • Tradition of Excellence (honoring alumni who have been exceptionally successful in their fields) I’m looking forward to digging in on instruction and facilities — both of
Oak Park is 57% vaccinated, about 2/3 of those currently eligible. It’s better than a lot of places, but still. We could get to herd immunity; it’s eminently possible, and it would make so many vulnerable people so much safer. Deeply frustrating.
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It is so strange — ever since running for office and being elected, I feel this increased sense of responsibility. So when a tornado warning went off tonight, yes, I went to go check on the kids and decide with Kevin whether we needed to wake them and head to the basement… …but I also
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Funny moment — going in for a high school board meeting (that I actually got wrong, it’s tomorrow, not today, oh well), and realizing that I have accidentally dressed in the school colors, orange and blue (with white and black accents). I guess I know what I’m wearing for Spirit Week. Go Huskies.
So at the last board meeting, I lost a vote. This is the first time that’s happened to me while serving on a board — at the library, our votes were nearly always unanimous; I can only remember one time when one person voted against the rest (and he later said that he’d thought about
I had an hour between graduation ceremonies (due to social distancing, they’ve divided the graduates into two groups), so I decided to come home and make a cup of tea and grab a cardigan for the evening and change into flats, because I am so unused to wearing even stacked heels that after an hour,
