As per an order from a judge, schools in this district could not actually open for in-person (“face-to-face”) instruction until on or after Labor Day. This district decided to come up with the “plan” of allowing parents and guardians to choose between allowing their students to attend in-person or virtually in the face of the pandemic, but that was taken away from them in the form of this order prohibiting face-to-face instruction until at least that date. The district could have chosen to delay the start of the school year until on or after Labor Day, which meant that students would attend school until the start of June instead of the end of May, or all students could attend virtually until on or after that date. Apparently this district is going to attempt to have all students attend virtually, which… surprisingly is not that bad of an option. I suppose we as collective citizens of this county will see if this blows up in the district’s face for lack of planning in the coming weeks.

But this literally makes the third or fourth time that this district has not, in some capacity, been allowed to fling the doors open during this pandemic for access, or increased access, to federal funding, and it really shows where their priorities are. At this point, nothing that the district could do would surprise me any more.

They really tell on themselves that they do not want to financially support their children when they do this.

I used to say “monogamy bores me and I find it dull”, but I think I’m going to steal a few lines from Kat Blaque now (who I’ve recently discovered is polyamorous thanks to a friend linking me to her videos, which made my day one evening), and state that I find it unreasonable that I be expected to give all of myself to one person, that we do not expect just one friend of ours to fulfill all of our needs, and that anyone who expects us — especially a polyamorous person — to give all of themselves to one person, or tries to require it, is toxic, and that person needs to have themselves be distanced from or avoided. But that’s just my take.

I have never successfully done a monogamous relationship because, for the longest time, I assumed that I had to “find some way to make one work”, and this literally came at the detriment of all of my monogamous relationships because I did not know (and for awhile, was not even made aware) that there were options that… wait for it… were not monogamy. I owe this to cultural and religious upbringing, especially because growing up when and where I did, this was not mentioned as an option. Once I realized that I was polyamorous, and that I needed to date in this relationship configuration, eschewing monogamy from that point forward (and not allowing men to “make exceptions for me”, which I could write a completely separate post on and actually intend on doing so), life began running much more smoothly for me and for all involved (my “comfortable amount” is surprisingly two) parties. Some people just do not “work well” with monogamy.