On Thursday evening, Adrienne Hollingsworth, Chandler’s Social & Emotional Coordinator, offered balm for the frazzled and strength for the journey as parents gathered on Zoom in three sessions to share experiences from home and to hear Adrienne’s wise counsel about parenting during a pandemic.
I hope you were able to take a little time off to enjoy part of the long weekend. Thanks to those of you who attended last week’s question and answer session with Chandler administrators and doctors.
The date for a return to in-person learning is still to be determined, but if the current declines in the spread of the virus hold for another week, Los Angeles County will move from Tier 1 (widespread) to Tier 2 (substantial), and the process that allows schools to re-open will begin with no estimate for how long the process will take.
In her weekly telebriefing with K-12 schools on Thursday, LA County's Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer reported on the continuing downward trend of coronavirus cases.
On Thursday’s call with K-12 calls, LA County Public Health Department (LACPHD) reported that new infections in the county are now at 9 per 100,000, with the positivity rate at 4%.
In one of my conversations with new Chandler families last week, one mother and son talked about their experiences with distance learning and how they were coping at home.
I read an interview with Alan Alda last week in which he was asked if he felt optimistic or pessimistic about the current situation, "With the world changing so rapidly, there's no point in being optimistic or pessimistic about anything," he said, "You've got to surf uncertainty because it's all we get."