Last week, our superintendent got alert by town police department that a physical threat against her from social media has been notified. The threat was made in response to a parent communication that was snet to families in which our superintendent referenced the Governor’s current executive order that requires masks in schools through Sept 30th.
"上周，我们校区总监收到警察局的预警，告知有人在社交平台上对其发出人身威胁。威胁是回应她前段时间与几个家庭开展的对话。在那次对话上，她重申在9月30日前到校上课的学生必须戴口罩，这是依照州长的指令进行的。
Let’s model for our children, be civilian, kindness, empathy. We know some community members might not be clear the existence of the executive order from Governor. But it does exist and we have put the document to prove. In the future, this executive order may be removed, but currently it works till Sept 30th.
让我们给孩子们做出榜样：礼貌，善良，富有同情心。 我们知道一些社区成员不清楚这份州长关于入校戴口罩的指令是否真实的存在。将来，这一规定可能会变化，但当前州长确实有这样的规定，我们已经将文件展示给大家了。我们希望这样的澄清对于大家有帮助。"
早晨，我从外面走路回来，看到这封邮件，心情气愤又沉重。我和校总监没见过面，却感觉很亲近。原因是几年前，我想让儿子转学到此镇，当时因为买的房子尚未交付，我们并不符合入学条件。但经我写给校总监的一封信，儿子被提前接受了。
我一直对她心存感激。那段时间的头几个月，我去了几次教育局，对他们表示感谢。我谢过了两位下面的领导，却一直没见到过总监本人。去年9-12月疫情期间，她每周都会写社区家长学生写信，通报疫情。在她的信中，信息透明公开，让人们知道病毒的真实存在。尽管这样，我却感受到了她的沉静与理性。很多时候，我觉得我与她很像。我们都不否认病毒的存在，但我们都知道生活工作学习要继续。故我们要用严肃，沉静，理性的心去面对这场疫情。
当时，在读完一封信后，我心潮汹涌。我在网上找到了她办公室的电话，打了过去。接起电话的是她的秘书，说她不在，但问了我的电话号码，说过后她会打电话给我。下午，她的秘书打电话给我，说总监下午还有会要开，今天不能给我回电话了，抱歉。我以为客套话完了，没有下文，却不想第二天一早我收到了总监的来电。我说了几年前我对她的感激，对整个学校社区的感受，说我身为这个社区的一员，感到温暖幸福，也愿意为维护这种氛围出一份力。。。
I read this letter after I got home from walk, my heart was heavy and filled with anger, the anger to the people who threated our beloved superintendent. I have never met her in person, but I feel being close to her.
Years ago, we lived in another town. After a heartbroken experience my son has in school, I decided to find him a new school, a school full of teachers and staffs with passsion, empathy and kindness. Recommended by church people, I found this town. I found a nice condo in thist town, but the current owner can’t move out in 45 days. I desperately need my son to study in the new school, so I followed the suggestion from a staff of education department. I wrote a letter to superintendent, explaining our situation. With her approval, I registered my son. Since then he has been studying happily in this school district. I still remembered vividly the scene when primary principle Laura talked with me and my son, my son was mute, I knew his feeling, he still suffered from the bad experience he has in previous school, after that, Laura gave us a tour in school.
At the first two years, I visited the education department a few times to express my gratitude. I met a few office staffs, but I never met superintendent. Last year, during the pandemic, I sent my son to school to take in-person classes since he told me in-person learning is a bette for him.
Once a week, superintendent sent parents a letter, in which she gave a brief on school district fight against covid-19 in the past a week. In the first paragraph, she always said she is so proud for what our students, staffs and parents have done. In the 2nd paragraph, she announced the numbers of positive cases, the close contact students and staffs have been informed to have two weeks’ quarantine and how the” close contact” was identified. In the 3r paragraph, she encourage students and parents keeping their vigilance to the virus.
The typical symptoms of COVID-19 was always be listed at the end of the letter.
我本以为这种事情不会发生在康州，我们的小镇，这里的人都善良，理性，冷静，富有同情心，也相对更相信和尊重科学数据。没想到并非如此。以往的社会给了人们太多的自由和包容，现在稍被管制一下都觉得承受不了。
这些日子，阿富汗问题是全球的焦点，早上看了朋友圈里的《阿富汗女孩》视频后，心想：美国在阿富汗二十年的成果，十几天就被塔利班全然摧毁，看过这片后心中有点自己的想法：美国，阿富汗两种文化就相当于地极的两极，怎是几十年驻军就能改变的？失败是必然。也难怪拜登说，"对于一群不想保护自己国家的人，美军在那里多留一年还是五年，都是没有意义的"他学了次川普，没有说政治正确的话。
