The First Day of School, Believing the Science, and Anecdotal Evidence

Andrew Donaldson
7 min readMar 15, 2021

The first day of school ends the social experiment of one side of the road being business as schools across it where shuddered and forbidden

Photo by Akbarali, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

This morning resumed what, for most of my adult life, has been ritual from August to June of each year. Children have to get to school. Not semi-sit-up and log on to their laptops, but actually get up and…

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Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media