Remembering the Low-down Lockdown by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

 

Remembering the Low-down Lockdown by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

The school bells ring and teachers and students finally return after what was supposed to have been a weeklong Spring Break, which turned into a six-month hiatus. It had everyone hiding at home out of fear of the cold-blooded, cringy covid that turned communities into national hotspots. It will certainly be one for the history books, if there are any history books left to read, or will they all be burned by rioting radicals?

The first assignment will be “What I did during the covid lockdown” instead of the usual “What I did during my Summer Vacation”.

This will probably be the summation of most of the student’s essays: “What I did during the COVID lockdown was nothing but stay home and basically be bored.”

In previous years students looked forward to regaling their teachers with all of their Summer adventures. Because every Summer was an adventure filled with activities and events that made Summer enjoyable and fun.

However, this Summer was like no Summer ever experienced, and hopefully never has to ever be experienced again. This was no fun because there were no vacations. There was nowhere to go because no recreational areas and no amusement parks were open.

What was missed the most was that no one could go swimming during the 100 degree weather days. And there were a lot of those.

There were no team sports to play and there were not even team sports to watch. And when there were team sports the players were acting, or should I say over-reacting, so over-the-top like political agitators instead of professional athletes.  Fans used to love watching sports, but now they don’t even bother, because they were all so disrespectful to the flag of the United States and to the National Anthem. And then the athletes  had to wear slogans on their uniforms that disrespect their fans.

Students never thought they would say this, but they missed going to school. They missed all their friends. They missed getting out of the house and having somewhere to go and something to do.

 

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.