Summer holidays!
Jun. 26th, 2020 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielToday was the last day of term. Another subdued affair. Last year, there was an atmosphere of anticipation and excitement from the moment the staff and student body stepped into the church (it's quite literally Thank God For The Holidays at my school) and then walked back for the last two lessons of term (which traditionally are game or movie time rather than actual lessons). After the last lesson, the students couldn't wait to run out, while we teachers fell into each others' arms in the teachers' lounge, dutifully took something from the brunch buffet, tidied up our places and then ran away with only slightly more dignity than the students.
This year, only the grade 7s were there (Friday has been their school day for these past weeks of one-day-per-week lessons), so only the teachers who teach in grade 7 were there, with everybody else enjoying an early start into the holidays. The teachers' lounge was already emptied out. There were no hugs and no communal brunch buffet. We wished each other happy holidays, and parted with this year's favourite phrase, "Stay healthy."
And thus ends my second year in teaching - not with a bang, but a whimper.
Official policy is that after the summer holidays, schools will be back to normal. After the most recent flare-ups in neighbouring districts (several of my seminary colleagues are affected by the district-wide lockdown), I have my doubts. Austria has officially declared my federal state a high-risk, no-go zone. Jörg still wants to go to France for a week. *sigh*
This year, only the grade 7s were there (Friday has been their school day for these past weeks of one-day-per-week lessons), so only the teachers who teach in grade 7 were there, with everybody else enjoying an early start into the holidays. The teachers' lounge was already emptied out. There were no hugs and no communal brunch buffet. We wished each other happy holidays, and parted with this year's favourite phrase, "Stay healthy."
And thus ends my second year in teaching - not with a bang, but a whimper.
Official policy is that after the summer holidays, schools will be back to normal. After the most recent flare-ups in neighbouring districts (several of my seminary colleagues are affected by the district-wide lockdown), I have my doubts. Austria has officially declared my federal state a high-risk, no-go zone. Jörg still wants to go to France for a week. *sigh*
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