I fly home in a week. Most of my morning was planning what to take back and what cases I need to work on when I’m home. I also need to do a deep clean of the home and if I have time, I’m considering taking a road trip, where I’m not sure yet. But I miss driving and I’m considering going for a long one.
After school, the kids cleaned up a bit and hung out. My oldest son created a wall of art for him and his siblings to display their works of art. It was beautiful. I’d take a photo of it, but many children are sleeping in that room right now.
I made tuna casserole for dinner. The kids devoured it as usual. They didn’t notice that one of the vegetables I put in was cactus. After dinner we let the kids play in the pool and run wild a bit while Bonnie and I uploaded a weeks worth of homework.
The school my kids go to is great and they have absolutely no idea on how to do distance learning. They run everything through google classroom. They purposely do not give out their email addresses, we have to post a comment somewhere to get any response. They hardly respond to comments anyways. Every day each child has autonomous work they are required to do. After it is complete they have to fill out a homework plan regarding the work they did. The teachers at this school are not complicating anything.
There is no uniformity per class. Each teacher has their own philosophy on what should be assigned and when it should be turned in. It’s a scavenger hunt to find the right link in order to even join a video classroom each morning. Some teachers email it, some do not. Some forget. At the end of the day you would think we can scan and upload a document and just email it. Nope.
The best way to turn in homework is to literally take a photo of it. Then email the photo to your email address. Then log into your child’s google account and open their classroom account. Then find the homework page. Then find the date of the homework. Click on the date for the certain type of document to turn in (lab, homework plan, elective, project). Then click an option to open up a drawing. After you do this, open up your email and download the corresponding photo. Right click the photo and copy it. Then go to the google drawing and copy paste onto the drawing. If there are multiple pages per corresponding document, repeat until all pages are pasted onto the drawing. Make sure the drawing is saved. Then close the window and elect to “deliver” the drawing. You just turned in that one piece of corresponding homework.
Now do that for the other three children. Try not to throw yourself off the roof. Tonight Bonnie showed me every minute detail on how to turn this homework in. Sometimes the teacher doesn’t post the link in order to turn the homework in. Of and the kids are doing this in a foreign language. Pray for our family. Pray my wife is the patience of a monk.
Now I can’t leave this log without telling what happened today during school. It might just be the funniest thing that has ever happened in our household. I won’t name names. Just know this absolutely happened to one of my boys.
During a video class, one of the children ran upstairs during their class. Another child took the computer and opened up a tab on the internet and took the computer into the bathroom to go to the bathroom. Unbeknownst to him, he dropped his pants and showed an entire class his genitals for a period of time. He had no clue what he did.
His mom eventually got the computer form him to ask the teacher how to class went. The teacher was laughing uncontrollably, and when my wife explained to our son what had happened, he was mortified. One day I will name the child that did this. But not for a while.
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