My husband and I will attend a football game at the high school tonight. Each marching band member is permitted two guests at the game. Our grandson and granddaughter will be playing trumpet and flute. It is a bit of a return to normal.
The past year has been hard on children and teens. I am glad my daughter chose to home school the younger children, instead of trying remote learning.
I had a brief introduction to remote learning during spring break. My daughter signed up the three youngest children for a zoom class on geology. She was unavailable to monitor it, so I agreed to help. The teacher had a great lesson plan and I had the worksheets for the children. There was a fairly wide span of ages participating. As the class proceeded children had questions and comments like “I have a pretty rock. Can I show it to you?”
The teacher graciously said, “You can take a picture and send it to me after class.”
The child responded, “Oh no, I will go outside and get it for you now.”
A parent jumped in with, “The children need to know which rock you are talking about now.”
As we listened and watched the screen, I tried to steer my three children with the worksheets we were filling in, attempting to get the names of the rocks correctly. I sighed with relief when the 45-minute class was done.
The teens had remote learning until the beginning of the new year—so many hours on computer screens. After a couple months of part-time in person, they are finally going to school full-time in person.
In the fall, my hope is that all children will be permitted to go back to school full-time. Without a vaccine mandate to attend. The vaccine is experimental and we don’t know the long-term consequences. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? When will we have enough data? I read an article about the changes some women are seeing in their menstrual cycles following vaccination.
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I’ve rejoiced with everyone that has been able to celebrate even small returns to normalcy. School has been especially hard – even for homeschool families! I have also been raising questions about the safety of the vaccines and encouraging others to ask questions too. At this time, that’s something I do NOT give permission for!
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It’s been such a tough road, this past year. I hope your grands get back in school full time. Mine have been full time since last August, school and all extracurricular activities, and everything has been fine. No big outbreaks, nothing.
That is great! I’m wondering what state you are in. We are in Illinois.