We mourn the sudden loss of our school families

As my daughter who is a third grade teacher in her second year of teaching closed up her classroom last night, not knowing for sure when she and her students will be back, she posted this picture.

Her private words: "After being at school for ten hours today.... Where I could only reach some of my kiddos.... So.... Sad."

While we know we are doing the right thing by closing and staying close to home to quit spreading these dangerous germs around, we mourn the sudden loss of our classroom families, and we worry.

We will struggle to provide what we can for our students while we are apart, but we know the real solution is to come back together as soon as this is over, so we can again grow and learn together.