Addy went back to school this week. It’s December. The last time she was at school was March 11th and we were planning to just maybe have a little extra time out for spring break.
Our district has families choose every grading period (6 weeks) if the kid is going to be online learning or in class. Everyone learns via online learning. Anyway we’ve been doing okay with it but Brownlee has started to go back to the office part time and I assume eventually I will be back at the office so we made the best choice we could and every choice is the wrong choice.
I’m generally furious about this because clearly the government is failing at every possible level. Each city in each state has their own rules about how to handle this even though COVID-19 has officially been a thing for a year.
But for now, Addy is happy to be back at school. I send her with 3 masks every day. She has hand sanitizer. She has wipes. I read something some time about how when countries are at war, yes the soldiers and government are going at it all the time, but the citizens are living lives as much as one can. If I sit and think about it too long I go into a nice existential spiral but that’s nothing new.
Anyway, here’s is the (slightly delayed) first day of (in-person) school photo.
