Where to educate our kids

• After a complete disaster in schooling when COVID first hit, we quickly started looking at alternatives for the Fall.
• Options
  • Just go with the flow and keep the kids in their normal schools
  • charter schools
  • Online schools
  • Homeschools
• Decisions about the school are not made alone. Ex(s) need to be on board
• Not all of your kids have to do the same thing.

Online School 

• Orientation meetings and lots of videos
• Weeding through thousands of Emails.
  • setting up a joint email for all of the parents
• Preparing for the first day. 
  • Getting organized (Computers, printers, cords, books) color coding, cubbies, shelves
  • Testing computers and connectivity
  • Getting into class early making sure everything is working
• Patience and perseverance is key. Not everything will be perfect at first give it time.
• We are four days in and we are still working through issues
  • Classes scheduled at the same time.
  • Too much work assigned on the same day.
  • Middle School kid with no work, High Schoolers with too much.
• Everyone is going through these changes. (7000 new families joined K12 in the last 2 months)

Blended Family Online Schools

• Shared Login and Email for online school and communication.
• Transporting school stuff between the house. Roller board suitcase for school supplies
• We had to change our transitions times to be after school instead of during school like before.
• Sometimes you need to let things go and look at the big picture.
  • Why did an email only go to one parent and not both?
  • Focus on the kids.
  • The little things will work themselves out.
• Make sure you are communicating with the ex(s). CC on email, send copies that only you get etc...

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