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Group Activities and Athletic Practices
Dear Parents, Coaches, and Students:
I urge everyone to get behind the school's commitment to social distancing. We are determined to flatten the transmission curve. This effort needs to be universal, disciplined, and unyielding. Stemming this pandemic requires unified action. A weak link is exponentially dangerous. Don’t be that weak link. In an athletic context, let’s transfer our competitive energy and will to defeating a common opponent, Covid-19. Although the axis of this letter is athletics, the message is relevant to everything we are doing while school is canceled and we are coping with a new normal, which may well persist beyond two and a half weeks. Note the CDC’s advisory yesterday to limit gatherings to fewer than fifty during the next eight weeks.
Each of us in our roles must share the responsibility to walk the talk. Faithfulness in this regard means that we are willing to take some heat from our children. The occasion calls on adults to take a hard line about latitude. We are not just responsible for our families but accountable for proximity to other families whom we might infect if we don’t rein in our activities. This virus is not empathetic; it will not discriminate among the virtuous and the corrupt. Adults need to step up and provide staunch role models for their children. Once a coach has admonished his/her team to desist from group practices, parents should unreservedly support that injunction and apply it to family management in these precarious times.
In taking a hard line, we should acknowledge the many admirable traits that motivate our children to perpetuate practices for their return to sports competition: their passion for the game; their competitive spirit, their love for teammates, their aspiration to win the coaches’ approval, and their customary drive to do their best and be all that they can be.
We are social animals, as David Brooks’ book from several years ago, insists. And this dominant trait lifts life’s joys. For a while, we need to commune with ourselves and our families. It’s a good time to cultivate the qualities that make us interesting to ourselves. Spending time looking inward will lead to improved social animals.
We will stay in touch. Please do the same.
Yours truly,
Dr. Leonard Kupersmith
I urge everyone to get behind the school's commitment to social distancing. We are determined to flatten the transmission curve. This effort needs to be universal, disciplined, and unyielding. Stemming this pandemic requires unified action. A weak link is exponentially dangerous. Don’t be that weak link. In an athletic context, let’s transfer our competitive energy and will to defeating a common opponent, Covid-19. Although the axis of this letter is athletics, the message is relevant to everything we are doing while school is canceled and we are coping with a new normal, which may well persist beyond two and a half weeks. Note the CDC’s advisory yesterday to limit gatherings to fewer than fifty during the next eight weeks.
Each of us in our roles must share the responsibility to walk the talk. Faithfulness in this regard means that we are willing to take some heat from our children. The occasion calls on adults to take a hard line about latitude. We are not just responsible for our families but accountable for proximity to other families whom we might infect if we don’t rein in our activities. This virus is not empathetic; it will not discriminate among the virtuous and the corrupt. Adults need to step up and provide staunch role models for their children. Once a coach has admonished his/her team to desist from group practices, parents should unreservedly support that injunction and apply it to family management in these precarious times.
In taking a hard line, we should acknowledge the many admirable traits that motivate our children to perpetuate practices for their return to sports competition: their passion for the game; their competitive spirit, their love for teammates, their aspiration to win the coaches’ approval, and their customary drive to do their best and be all that they can be.
We are social animals, as David Brooks’ book from several years ago, insists. And this dominant trait lifts life’s joys. For a while, we need to commune with ourselves and our families. It’s a good time to cultivate the qualities that make us interesting to ourselves. Spending time looking inward will lead to improved social animals.
We will stay in touch. Please do the same.
Yours truly,
Dr. Leonard Kupersmith
Head of School
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