High school

Colin is back in school.  For now. Or at least today.  There is an emergency school board meeting tonight and we are all convinced they will go all virtual again.  Chesapeake stayed open last week when all school districts around us went immediately virtual.  Joel is hoping to stay in person.  Colin is not.

We thought virtual was bad. Colin has a French teacher who keeps giving him zeros for work he has submitted. Then he has to take screen shots to prove its submitted on his end and the teacher finally accepts it but marks it late. She is doing it to everyone we talk to. You'd think 9 weeks into the school year she would figure out how to have things submitted. 

 In person is even worse.  They are treated like prisoners.  The teachers are teaching both in person and virtual at the same time and instead of using the extra in class time for more instruction, the teachers tell the kids to just play on their phones.  Its apparently not fair to the kids at home who wont get that instruction time.  Its really not fair to the kids in school getting dressed and wearing a mask for the entire day either. All the neighborhood high schoolers are hoping they go virtual. Its so sad. These kids hate school.  I told Colin today would be his last in person day. If they don't go virtual I'm changing him from in person to virtual student.  He has never hated school so much and would much rather be home than stuck in his classroom in a mask with nothing to do but play on his phone. I do get texts from him during the day so that is fun. But sad. Usually its about how much he hates it.  He also has an assigned seat in the cafeteria because of contact tracing (all the eye rolling here) so he isn't making friends. 

A good part of high school is he has been going to conditioning practice for basketball. At first they could only do a few drills. Then they could pass the ball between another player. Now they can pass the ball between 4 players. He did go to the football conditioning practice one night.  He has to go late because it overlaps basketball but the corner back wasn't doing his job so the coach was yelling at the players (both varsity and jv varsity) and looked around and pointed to Colin and had him go in. Colin did such a great job the coach praised him in front of everyone. 

Right now Colin goes in person Mondays and Wednesday with Friday asynchronous (they can do their work on their own time that day

Joel is in person Wednesday and Friday with Monday asynchronous. 

We will see after tonight what the school board decides.  

What a strange year. That keeps getting even stranger.