SL 782

~ Laura
Norham Castle, Sunrise c.1845 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01981

The status quo — no school and no child care — is not sustainable for most families, who are trying to work two jobs at the same time as home schooling.

We’re exploring various options at Outschool.

Loved this essay by a restaurant owner in New York City.

State colleges are in big time trouble. So are private ones; Johns Hopkins is laying off workers. Higher ed isn’t going to be the same in September.

It’s Turner’s birthday.

This virus was roaming around NYC and San Francisco for longer than we thought.

Megan McArdle is talking about the zero gallon oil prices and the uncertainty of these times. Hope her dad is feeling better.

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10 thoughts on “SL 782”

  1. “The status quo — no school and no child care — is not sustainable for most families, who are trying to work two jobs at the same time as home schooling. ”

    The New York Times adds an interesting caveat on the status quo for low income workers, who, in the short term, might see increased compensation for staying at home (which one wanted to incentivize while we try to flatten the peaks).

    In Arizona & Kansas, the NYT says more than 50% of workers will receive more compensation than if they were working with the paycheck protection act (if they were able to successfully claim unemployment).

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  2. I know a couple of people who have had success with Outschool. I’m interested in hearing more about how it pans out. The family I know using it uses it in combination (normally) with in school offerings as a partial home school.

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  3. Here’s something I got for our artsy senior after seeing Bethany Mandel tweet about it:

    It’s a book entitled “Watercolor With Me in the Forest.” You get an example of the finished watercolor work on one page and then an outline on the facing page that you fill in. (You need appropriate watercolors and brushes, too, of course.) The results can be very satisfying.

    There’s also an undersea book and a jungle book in the series. The jungle book looks fantastic, but is only coming out in October.

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  4. I got “Sketch Your Style: A Guided Sketchbook for Drawing Your Dream Wardrobe” for me and my college freshman. But I”m guessing neither of these are particularly good for a HS boy :-).

    You got the paperback, right? I’ve wondered how this kind of book is supposed to work in Kindle, since they are sketchbooks. Also, are the pages heavy enough to hold the watercolor?

    I’m kind of picky about art supplies I’ve realized.

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    1. “I got “Sketch Your Style: A Guided Sketchbook for Drawing Your Dream Wardrobe” for me and my college freshman.”

      There seem to be a lot of nice watercolor books these days.

      “You got the paperback, right? I’ve wondered how this kind of book is supposed to work in Kindle, since they are sketchbooks. Also, are the pages heavy enough to hold the watercolor?”

      Yes, I got the paperback. Not a painter myself, but yes, the paper looks very substantial.

      Yeah, it is pretty pointless in Kindle format, as the whole idea is that it’s sketchless watercolor, with the authors providing the outlines that you paint in. Related: DO NOT BUY sheet music in Kindle format. I’ve read many mad reviews from buyers who discovered that their sheet music was virtually unusable on a Kindle.

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  6. We just got a free one-month trial of the Smithsonian streaming service.

    One of my kids is geeking out that, “There’s so much cool stuff here!”

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  8. https://apnews.com/1534addd5ef237377acd1b46ffa81e95

    “Greeted by relieved parents, pet dogs, flares and a cloud of orange smoke, a group of 25 Dutch high school students with very little sailing experience ended a trans-Atlantic voyage Sunday that was forced on them by coronavirus restrictions.

    “The children, ages 14 to 17, watched over by 12 experienced crew members and three teachers, were on an educational cruise of the Caribbean when the pandemic forced them to radically change their plans for returning home in March.

    “Instead of flying back from Cuba as originally planned, the crew and students stocked up on supplies and warm clothes and set sail for the northern Dutch port of Harlingen, a five-week voyage of nearly 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles), on board the 60-meter (200-foot) top sail schooner Wylde Swan.”

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