So. Yesterday spent 4 hours (yes, 4 hours!) organizing school work for the kids for this week.

I hear tell of these schools that have multiple live Zoom sessions with students, and assignments that are due on certain days, that have work still evaluated and graded.

Well, that is not our school system here in Zachary. What we’re doing is we got packets sent home and some links to some great electronic resources. I want to pause for a moment here and state that:

1. I LOVE my kids’ teachers. I LOVE their school experience. They are AWESOME. The school system here in Zachary is THE BOMB.
2. This is an unprecedented, world-wide pandemic that no one was prepared for – I totally get it.

And also. There is precious little structure for this experience, so I’ve had to create it myself and I am NOT digging it. Lots of work. Lots of organization. Folks online (and everyone has their own take on this, I get it) have said that (1) if all the kids are behind, the teachers will take it into account at the beginning of next year, and (2) it’s only the last 9 weeks of school and most of those are preparing for the yearly exams.

Both of those are slightly horrifying to me. I don’t want my kids to fall behind. I don’t care if everyone is behind together. I don’t want them to be behind period. Also, I need to keep these kids academically busy. Their brains need the workout. And double also, if I don’t they’ll default to spending WAY too much time on electronics and their tiny little developing brains don’t need too much of that.

And if the last 9 weeks of school are really spent preparing for a standardized test, WHAT the WHAT. What a waste of educational time. Does that mean every year I can take my kid out 9 weeks early because they’re just preparing for a test? That doesn’t seem right, and I hope it’s not accurate.

Sheesh.

I created a site here: https://sites.google.com/view/mospe/daily-schedule. I created a daily schedule for the kiddos to keep them on track.

If you happen to have a child in 1st or 5th grade in the Zachary Schools in Louisiana, please feel free to play along.

Peace out – Sasha