Day 184: Long Week Ahead

The new school year starts on Monday. Over the last few days we have tried to prepare ourselves, but it hasn’t been easy. The school committee didn’t make its decision until recently, so teachers and administrators had little time to prepare. Consequently, supply lists and teacher assignments only just came out.

I ordered our supplies immediately, and luckily they arrived in time. On Friday my husband collected school materials for the kids at the designated pick-up stations. Then we attended, via Google Meet, Livia’s 4th-grade orientation. Marshall had the same teacher for 4th grade, and I’m glad that we’re starting off with someone we already know. She seems well-prepared and we feel like Livia will be in good hands.

We still don’t know the identities of all of Marshall’s teachers. The middle school is less organized than the elementary school is, but slowly the e-mails are trickling in. By 8:00 a.m. Monday we should know most of what we need to know.

Speaking of 8 a.m., we are going to have to readjust ourselves to keeping morning hours. Unlike the quickly thrown-together distance learning that the kids had in the spring, this time around the teachers will be teaching class all day, starting in the early morning. That means no more rolling out of bed at whatever time feels good. Alarms are going to have to be set. Discipline will have to be employed. Darnit.

It’s going to be a long week.

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