Connect with us

Fashion

School Closures Have Pitted Parents Against Teachers. What About People Who Are Both?

“I have my daughter’s work, and I have to teach, and I have my own personal graduate school work to do, and it feels like everything’s just collapsing.”…

Julie: It’s hard to say, in terms of my job and childcare. My husband is out of work. He’s in hospitality, so it’s like, who knows when he’ll work again? Could the city offer people like him, who work in hospitality, something to help get through this time? Absolutely.

Jeffrey: I just wish the city had had a plan implemented, so we wouldn’t have this whole “going back to school, going back home, back and forth” situation. I feel like if parents knew they would be remote all year, it might have been easier to plan and navigate this year.

What kind of emotional toll has this year taken on you?

Julie: The first round of closures was next-level traumatic, because our school community was really affected, and there were a lot of deaths. This time around, we’re prepared for it; we knew it was coming, and we’re dealing with it, but it doesn’t make it any easier. You just get so tired. You caught me on a very emotional day, when my students actually witnessed me and my husband having a marital spat! The baby was crying, and my husband was like, “You woke him up, you were being too loud.” But I was teaching! I just never thought I’d have a class of students witnessing those parts of my marriage live on Zoom.

Matt: Well, somethng just happened, actually, where my son—who’s a smart, bright kid, but likes to do the minimum—I was able to get into Google Classroom and look at one of his assignments, and I had to have a long conversation with him about, “You’ve got to do more than the bare minimum here.” This is my seventeenth year teaching, so I’m well aware of what expectations for a middle-school kid are, but that’s something that parents who are not teachers might not be able to do.

Jeffrey: Mentally, this has been really tough. I was on a call with my kindergarten class’s families the other day, and I was getting so stressed out, because I have my daughter’s work, and I have to teach, and I have my own personal graduate school work to do, and it feels like everything’s just collapsing.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Entertainment

A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
Photo: DannyB Photos / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

Advertisement
Continue Reading

Entertainment

Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

Quavo photographed in 2019
Photo: Finish Line / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

Continue Reading

Video Of The Week

Trending