Tag: Schools

Time to Re-Open Schools?

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Children, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sacramento, Sheltering-in-Place, Teaching, Writing

This week when the Republican President and his entitled Secretary of Education demanded that public schools open full time/full service this fall, virus or no virus, OR they would lose federal funding, I became so upset that I turned off the computer, the TV, the radio.  That was the straw.  I couldn't stand to hear … Continue reading Time to Re-Open Schools?

The Changing Dreamscape

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Current Events, Literature, Musings, School Shootings

Ursula LeGuin wrote an amazing book called The Word for World is Forest back in 1972.  A friend gave it to me sometime in the 80s and it has haunted me ever since.  It’s something of an allegorical tale:  humans head off to exploit the fictional planet Athshe—to kill the men, rape the women, and … Continue reading The Changing Dreamscape