A homage to the tireless efforts of SAS faculty and administration in responding to COVID-19

Within a week, just as faculty, administration, students, and families dispersed all over the world for the Chinese New Year break, everything fell apart. The COVID-19 reality soon settled in, and thus the administration abandoned their breaks in favor of generating a Distance Learning Plan from scratch. With major administrative forces such as Mr. Marcel Gauthier, Dr. Benjamin Lee, Ms. Kristen Dickhaut, and Ms. Emily Sargent-Beasley pioneering SAS efforts in response to the crisis, versatility and flexibility became traits of high demand. Experience from SARS and H1N1 outbreaks were belittled by the sheer reach of COVID-19. Now, after around three … Continue reading A homage to the tireless efforts of SAS faculty and administration in responding to COVID-19

SAS Pudong High School Faculty addresses senior class with touching video message

With grinning faculty members holding up carefully crafted signs (or just as carefully arranged fruit in Mr. Melton’s case) and backed with cheerful tunes, “A Message for Our Pudong Seniors…” begins. Reminiscent of Love Actually‘s famous note card scene and … Continue reading SAS Pudong High School Faculty addresses senior class with touching video message

A Pandemic’s Crisis of Trust

There is little question that the COVID-19 pandemic has made people more distrustful of one another. In a time when anyone and anything could be a disease carrier, it is difficult to not be suspicious. A visceral manifestation of this distrust is violent xenophobia, expressed in public acts of brutality against Asians: a Singaporean University College London (UCL) student in the streets of London, and even an Asian-American family and child in a Texas supermarket. Such distrust shows when people dub COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.” It shows when people inside China call it “Wuhan pneumonia” and panic at the … Continue reading A Pandemic’s Crisis of Trust