This morning I stumbled upon the Maine Center for Disease Control guidelines for opening schools.
I’m saddened, as we all are, to see such strict and dehumanizing guidelines thrust upon us. Yet I see the need. We are at war, the enemy is this virus, and until we can create the weapon that will destroy it we must protect our children from it. This is our new reality. This is our new normal.
I did find, however, one shining beacon of hope. Part III, Section A, Paragraph 3.
Encourage visionary risk takers to create nontraditional models and plans. This is a time for innovation and big thinking.
The old model of public education may have served well 150 years ago when it was created. But the world has changed. We have blithely accepted this model because it was already in place, warm and comfortable like an old shoe. Maybe we haven’t noticed that the sole is so worn that we are being crippled by that shoe. Maybe we won’t know until we try on a new shoe how crippled we have allowed our old shoe to make us.
Now, buried in Part III, comes the call for visionary thinking. Let us answer that call.
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