Day 15

Today and yesterday for that matter has been just another couple of days. I spend the morning on the computer, grading school work, communicating with students and working on other school stuff. Then in the afternoons I work outside. Lately working on getting the Strawberry, Blueberry and Raspberry gardens ready. I come in at night dead tired and then just crash watching some old TV on the Pluto app.

In between I’m keeping the kids on task, putting out fights, and tweeting. I’ve also been 3D printing more masks for the kids, and keeping everything running around the house. Joan has been neck deep in her own work and keeping from going crazy with the kids underfoot.

Today we were told to take a break for the rest of the week from online classes. I guess parents had complained that their kids were getting too much work and the District would like to reorganize how they want to do this online learning. What everyone needs to do is restructure their content so it is asynchronous and can be done at any time. That way the students can work on as much or at least as they need to and won’t feel so overwhelmed.

I sent out an email to my students and parents and let them know that they were doing great and not to get too upset about the work. My only expectation is that they get most of it done by April 27th when we go back. They can work on my stuff or their math or whatever and just stay on task and keep going.