An Unsettling Announcement (Days 101-???)

Today, I test positive for COVID-19.

Last night, our school suddenly announced that instead of our usual weekly COVID testing day of Thursday, suddenly we'd be testing today at 10:00, during second period Ethnostats. Before that period ends, I get the unsettling news that I had tested positive, and I'm immediately sent home to quarantine.

There is no convenient time to test positive, but this week is especially tricky. My plans were to give, finally, the chapter tests in Calculus and Trig, and a project in Ethnostats. Well, Ethnostats will still get a stripped-down version of the project. Meanwhile, the other classes will get online tests, since after playing the minimum day game with them in January, I told Calc that I'd give them a test no matter what. (If I'd known I'd be out this week, I might at least have given Calc a quiz last week regardless of minimum days.)

And just as I go into quarantine, so will this blog. According to the LA County Department of Health, I must stay in quarantine for at least five full days (tomorrow-Monday), so the earliest that I can return to school is Tuesday, if I test negative. In that case, my first blogging day will be Wednesday.

My monthly "A Day in the Life" for February would have been the minimum day on Monday the 7th. So instead, it will be on the first blogging day (that is, Wednesday or Friday) after I return to school. The focus of that post will be damage control, after the students sit through several days of subs.

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