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Welcome to ANI In The Air Online and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing of
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all the goings ons, in the rounds, arts and ideas, Sunday School.
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So today was Tuesday and we had school meeting.
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There was no rule motions or approvals.
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We did have a couple of discussions.
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One was on a discussion about the idea of enrolling some students online, those who
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might be really capable of doing so, very interested and self-motivated and willing
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to try to make connections from a distance.
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And so we were thinking that it would be helpful if there was some kind of welcoming committee
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for these students.
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We generally don't do that for new students in person, but it can be pretty hard to make
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connections on something like Discord.
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We also talked about extending the school year into June.
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No one raised any objections, so that was good.
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Few students were very enthusiastic about it and most in attendance were just kind of
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mute about it.
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But the idea would be just it's kind of compensating for this time online and the hope is that
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with the vaccines about to be distributed, that by May or June, we might really be more
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or less done with the pandemic.
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That might be a little optimistic, but there's hope.
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Certainly, we should be in a better position than we are now, and June is still often cool
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enough to still be outside comfortably for a lot of the day.
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July and August get to be pretty hot, but June is often pretty good.
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So yeah, we'll probably take it up in an assembly.
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It's a tricky issue because it's not really clear whose decision power it is to make this
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change.
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Our school calendar is defined by school meeting, but you really need the buy-in of the parents
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and the students.
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We really want it to be if we extend the school year, it will be everyone still being there.
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So we really need buy-in from everybody for that purpose.
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So we'll see.
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Then, what else happened today?
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Well, let's see, there are, well, I guess on Wednesday, oh yeah, this was announced
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at school meeting, Ashley will be holding a kind of a makeup, I guess, tutorial at three
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on Wednesday, and then on Thursday, Ashley plans to hold kind of an introduction to what
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Kwanzaa is, so that's cool, Wednesday at 10 a.m., I plan to hold an Amazing Tales session
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where we, you know, kind of create a story with some dice.
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It doesn't, I don't think it scales all that well to having a lot of people participating
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at a time, but you know, maybe we can run some quick short stories if there's a number
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of people being present, but maybe it's just about introducing how to actually do these
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things and then maybe they can do it, you know, on their own or something, it can be
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fun.
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All right, oh, let's see, I guess on Thursday, there'll be Article Club, which, let's see,
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it is, it's a YouTube video about battling the flames after Libya's revolt, so it could
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be an interesting video to watch and to discuss, so we'll see about that, and I guess that's
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pretty much it.
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I think yesterday and Monday, there was a really good turnout for Creative Writing Club
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and some really interesting pieces of writing that are posted there, so be sure to check
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that out if you haven't and think about participating.
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All right, and I think with Minecraft, there have been a couple of technical glitches with
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the new server, but otherwise it seems to be going well, so that's cool.
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All right, I think that's enough from me for now.
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It is talking about Tuesday, so I did record a little piece about kind of facing the critiques
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in Sudbury School, so check that out if you like, otherwise I will talk to you all later.
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Bye-bye.