The details, challenges and problems to solve wash over me like a torrent of successive waves. They keep coming, with no sustained rest or recovery between them. A pause serves only as a momentary respite to catch my breath.
It has been like this for five months now, and it has only increased over the past several weeks. This is what it feels like to lead a Jesuit secondary school during the coronavirus pandemic, especially in these days as we prepare for the new school year. During these times, the groups to whom I owe my care all have their own unique needs: faculty, staff, students, parents, colleagues in the administration, my counterparts who serve as school leaders elsewhere in the city and region. I try to listen to their concerns, to collaborate with them in problem-solving and to understand the challenges they present for my consideration or ask for my assistance in overcoming.
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