New School Arrangement and a Moment of Peace
As an elementary teacher, I always imagined my kids would come to school with me and we'd be together as long as they are elementary age. Enter 2020. Since I am in a very high risk category I am currently teaching from home. Ella and William have both been staying home and doing our school's virtual option. While William and his gregarious extroverted kindergarten innocence has been fine and would likely be fine in any situation, Ella has been falling further and further behind. This is both heartbreaking and maddening because up to now school has always been the place where she has excelled and had the least behavioral concerns. It has been a daily struggle to get any of her work done. She has even intentionally answered questions wrong on many assignments. Anything that looks or says "assessment" initiates an immediate meltdown. So last week, we took a leap of faith, spurred by an amazing chain of events. We pulled both kids from our school (where I teach) and e
