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Mar. 13th, 2020 08:51 amA couple additional shoes have dropped.
We heard from Alice, and SEA, that they cannot in good conscience send 30 kids to New Zealand even if they (the kids) are going to self-isolate on a ship for six weeks, so the sea component is cancelled or postponed - they're still trying to figure out which and how and how to pay for it. The vast percentage of tuition goes to making the ships run, and the ships run even if there are not students on board. We'll hear more from them as they figure out how to structure the rest of the semester to cope with some hideous combination of credits, promised ship time (Alice's biggest wish) and the looming possibility that all schools will be closed unilaterally, from the state, instead of from internal caution or decision making. Alice thinks this decision will last a week or so, until something else shifts. I could/should go see her now, while I can? or while I am allowed to? because she might be quarantined in WH for a while if the virus suddenly erupts in the state. SEA has been taking kids to sea since 1972 - this is the first time they have ever had to cancel classes. They must be stunned. I'm stunned.
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siderea has declared it is time to hunker down, shortly after Al decided the same thing. We, as a group of 20 people who have dinner together, are deciding how to cope with Family Dinner in a pandemic.
It was raining so nicely and I was so cozy in bed this morning it was hard to wake up and face the morning.
We heard from Alice, and SEA, that they cannot in good conscience send 30 kids to New Zealand even if they (the kids) are going to self-isolate on a ship for six weeks, so the sea component is cancelled or postponed - they're still trying to figure out which and how and how to pay for it. The vast percentage of tuition goes to making the ships run, and the ships run even if there are not students on board. We'll hear more from them as they figure out how to structure the rest of the semester to cope with some hideous combination of credits, promised ship time (Alice's biggest wish) and the looming possibility that all schools will be closed unilaterally, from the state, instead of from internal caution or decision making. Alice thinks this decision will last a week or so, until something else shifts. I could/should go see her now, while I can? or while I am allowed to? because she might be quarantined in WH for a while if the virus suddenly erupts in the state. SEA has been taking kids to sea since 1972 - this is the first time they have ever had to cancel classes. They must be stunned. I'm stunned.
siderea has declared it is time to hunker down, shortly after Al decided the same thing. We, as a group of 20 people who have dinner together, are deciding how to cope with Family Dinner in a pandemic. It was raining so nicely and I was so cozy in bed this morning it was hard to wake up and face the morning.