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Home-Schooling AKA “MacGuyver That School @#*%”

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

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Testing Negative Means Never Having To Say “I Exposed You”…

So I got a test and it came back negative!

It actually coincided with the criteria for coming out of self-isolation within my own household, so, as of Thursday I have:

  1. Hugged and kissed my children
  2. Gotten coffee without an N95 mask and surgical gloves
  3. Hugged and kissed my husband (and scratched his back and told him how wonderful he is)
  4. Walked through the house touching objects

Here’s the thing, though. My husband does not believe the test results. To be fair, the whole testing situation in the US has been a hot mess, and to be doubly fair, I did have every symptom except for actual breathing issues. BUT, regardless, I could no longer feel like Typhoid Mary!

Interestingly, I got some super vague advice on “when it would be safe to come out of self-isolation within your household”. This ranged from:

I still have a cough, but no chest constriction, so either way I’m good. The second health facility I went to (huge shout out to my neighbor who gave me the hook up!) also prescribed azithromycin, which is an antibiotic and confusing me because this sucker is a virus, but apparently that’s what they’re using when folks are getting those lung symptoms. Whatever this thing was or is, that stuff helped. I definitely noticed a difference after the first day.

So I started noticing my cough about 10 days ago. I’m still not up to snuff. We had a dance party in the backyard with the kids last night, and I was WINDED after just a few of my classic moves (LOL!).

Why did we have a dance party in our backyard last night? Well, because we had finished watching Instant Family, and we’re on the Next Level (I know you heard about it – check it out).

What’s not to love about that?

-Sasha

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