Goodbye Bubbles
The anticlimactic "____has left the Meet". This was the second year in a row where I had the experience of the last day goodbyes barely being an acknowledgement of a year of conversation, laughs, analysis, skills work, Peardecks, Flipgrids, presentations, read alouds, and troubleshooting gone by. We only had asynchronous work on Fridays so class was actually as normal and organized as it had been in the previous decade and some. I had one student say, "see you tomorrow" when I reminded him that no, today is the last day of classes he said, "so there's not like a thing? Like, the teachers aren't sending out an end of year celebration link?" I reminded him we had one on the 11th (what would have really been the usual last day of classes). He responded, "Wow, so this is it? So anticlimactic. Teachers used to want to say goodbye to us and have relationships!" I said, "yes, and we still do but it's not that easy when everyone is...
