This isn't easy (musings about the virus from a teacher and how I learned to cope with not seeing my kids in person)
But no one said it would be. I knew it was going to happen, I knew we would be teaching online at some point during this pandemic. Other countries were doing it, other states started shutting down their schools. I tried to prepare myself. My school tried to prepare us. But, can you really prepare for something like this? Sure, you can learn all you can about online platforms, and how to deliver lessons online, but, nothing can ever, ever prepare you for the emotional impact this has on a person. I miss my kids. I miss them terribly, and this was very, very hard for me. To the point that I ended each week despondent and crying constantly. I was taking it out on myself, and my family. I almost wished that it was summer and I didn't have to see their faces on the computer screen, because that was harder than not seeing them at all. I wasn't sure if I could keep doing it. I knew I had to because they were counting on me bring some sort of normalcy to their lives too. I