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Online learning hasn’t been easy for them.
Elena Xausa
Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com.
Dear Abby and Brian,
I’m trying to supervise my 9-year-old grandson through online learning. He has ADHD, is extremely smart, and gets bored with the slow pace set by the teacher, who’s trying valiantly to engage 28 different students.
Often, once he has figured out the answer to a problem, he starts playing online games. Keeping him off those creates endless battles and frustration for both of us.
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Why people dwell on their final pre-pandemic memories
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For me, it’s the last time I swam in the ocean. It was a February evening in Florida, and I didn’t know that the people I was there with would be the last new friends I’d make, on a work trip I didn’t know would be the last I’d take.
Everyone else seemed content to sit on the sand and look up nearby restaurants on the internet. But I felt like maybe I’d regret it if I didn’t go in. So I changed into a bathing suit I didn’t know I was wearing for the last time, and I swam out just far enough to feel free but still safe. Two things I haven’t felt since.
Rethinking life’s milestones with the end of the pandemic in sight Published March 9
This combination photo shows Elizabeth Cole wearing her wedding gown with her dog Holly at her home in Lake Geneva, Wis., on May 26, 2020, left, and Cole in the same gown with her dog McGee on her wedding day on May 26, 2001. To celebrate her anniversary, Cole surprised her spouse by putting on her wedding gown from 19 years ago, recreated their reception menu and enlisted one of her four kids to DJ their first-dance song. And the priest who married them offered a special blessing on Zoom with friends and family joining in. (Elizabeth Cole, left, and Jessica Tampas Photography via AP)
Newfie » Sun 21 Feb 2021, 23:41:28
jawagord wrote:It s running away alright! For posterity to balance the usual summertime posting hysteria over high temperatures, there remains lots of cold, winter hasn t gone away and isn t going away.
Environment Canada says 15 new record lows were set in Alberta on Monday due to an “unseasonably cold” arctic ridge of high pressure.
This is in addition to 26 records that were broken over the weekend, the national weather agency said.
Of the 15 communities with new record lows on Monday, the coldest was in Red Deer, which saw temperatures drop to -43.9 C breaking the city’s previous record of -40.6 C, set back in 1936.