To say this school year is just plain wacko is an understatement, but one thing I know to be true...Thank God for Teachers! I truly hope this year helps us prioritize our school systems and teachers in the future!
This year may have been delayed serval times, my kids may all have started online in a less than organized manner (I'm being very kind), but they are all now in school (for the time being) for what we are calling a hybrid model. To keep class sizes smaller, they have divided the district into 2 cohorts (A & B). Therefore, one group goes to school Mon/Tues, everyone is online on Wed, and the other group attends in person on Thur/Fri. To break it down even further, they come home at lunch time and continue school online in the afternoon. Therefore, they are in school for 4 hours twice a week.
Let me begin with the positive; simply put, we are healthy and certainly have a lot of privilege. Thankfully Gabriel and Abraham are older, hard workers, responsible, and are capable of doing well in school without a lot of support...for the most part. Sweet Mariam, on the other hand, is super social and simply a 5 year old who desires to do well in school but needs supervision and guidance....cue Mommy. I'm trying really hard not to complain, but please just let me say...I have been staying home with babies or working around limited preschool schedules for 12 years...12 years! Of course, we would be hit with a worldwide pandemic the year I send my baby off to kindergarten. Oh, and it's also the year that we are living in a new part of the country in a furnished home for only one year. Therefore, what little sanity I have left until we move again is unfortunately not being devoted to a new job. We all have our individual stories about how difficult this school year (including last spring) has been. So just let me say, I hear you!
