On Sunday, while we were at church, the parents in our third child’s first grade class voted to have the first graders class room video instruction between 5pm to 630pm. We would not have voted on that, and if we had made the vote, we still would have lost.
All day, from 9am to 630 Bonnie is doing some form of school. The WhatsApp app blows up all day long with literally hundreds of messages per day just in the first grade class alone, and nearly a hundred in the other classes as well. We would just throw our hands in the air and dismiss it all if one of the reasons for this trip wasn’t to help the kids become more fluent. We do have some breaks during the day, but it’s still very tiring. Not only do the kids have assigned work, but when they finish it, it needs to be scanned and uploaded to the corresponding teachers google classroom. Today was exhausting, and below you will see a photo of the kids classroom schedules we put up on the wall.
Our kids aren’t too thrilled with this either. They have breaks through the day, but we can tell they are wearing thin and this is only the first day back at school. They plan on reopening school May 1, but I’m skeptical that’s going to happen.
In the morning I had a 90 minute “town hall” type video chat with the entire probate bar. The two judges were the only ones talking about how we are going to do court on a very limited basis and how we will be handling video appearances. I’m still planning on flying back in May and June. We need to take things home and I need to bring some items back.
Below are photos of our children who aren’t pleased with school work today.
I think if we could just get our kids to zoom chat with other kids and have them only speak Spanish, I’d do my beat to convince Bonnie to totally ignore the “requirements” this private school is having on us.
Our youngest woke me up just now (4am our time) and said he needed a drink of water. I got it for him and he drank it and then walked to Bonnie’s side of the bed and hugged her.
When I have broken sleep I always get up and check on the kids, just a habit of mine. Our oldest has been caught red handed playing on the chrome book, which is totally against the rules. Now we have to lock up the chrome books every night.
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