Home schooling

End of this week brings to a close the second semester of our schools in our local district.  Quietly, the week of March 9, 2020, teachers and schools were beginning to plan to send home students to finish out the semester, iPads and chrome books in hand.  Parents learned that they would be soon taking over the home schooling. The COVID19 had started to appear to be deadly, and therefore the schools had to be closed. Closing schools aligned with all of us to stay home also.  Lock down was the other description, and now we are beginning to open up and start back out into our world only 60-days later.

Prayers now that as we go back into our world, it will come back stronger, and we will be able to join back into life with new habits to help keep us safe from this virus that in the beginning when the projections were first assembled by some of the finest researchers, well, the devastation was to be in the millions.  Any loss is serious and bad enough, but at least now not in the millions.

Today when I was speaking with one of the Backpack Journalist Interns, a high school junior, she used the word:  "chill" when describing what she had doing with her family.  For the past two months, all were home, and for a first time, just spending time together.  They tried to not keep up with the loss of life, but more to enjoy each other, and not necessarily to live on the computer.

My daughter as well as all Moms and Dads who had never held a "home school",  at the end of this week, will be retiring from their responsibility.  With three at home for my daughter, what a challenge that was and probably still is, as still a few days to go.  She used white boards, a table was set to hold the text books and plugs everywhere for the iPads and Chrome books. And, still there were meals to prepare, and her own business to take care of and a house to run, clothes to wash.

Worst of all, us grandparents could not help!  The quarantine was to protect us older adults, as this nasty virus was known to go for us.  So, dear daughter, thank you for protecting us all, taking on multiple projects, jobs and still running your own business.  Thank you, with love and great admiration.

This COVID19 is not over yet, and masks and social distancing is our new way of life, testing important, but at least summer is here, and school may be adjourned until August.





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