Not normal at all.
Seven months into his first year of high school, he went to school after 11 months out of school and in his bedroom.
The first two days of his week in school were from home because one was a teacher conference day that I had no idea about and the other was a teacher work day during which they apparently don't work. *see below. His fourth day of the week back was canceled due to ice, that wasn't.
After the county told us his bus would be here after it would actually be here so he missed it, I drove him in.
He wasn't allowed out of the car until he passed a medical questionnaire.
He attended remote classes from within his classes from his own computer that he brought from home. Most of his teachers weren't there.
One class had two students in it, including him. The teachers have said out loud they hope the kids don't show up.
His social studies teacher was there and asked him in class: "Ben, have I ever seen you?" Turns out the answer is no, because he was attending a different social studies class the entire semester. No one ever reached out. At all. And he had no way of knowing because neither of the two social studies teachers have graded any work the entire semester so grades wouldn't indicate anything was wrong, and the teacher in the class he had been attending just ignored that he was there.
The kids were told in one class that they were essentially stupid for wanting to come to school because they could be home sleeping in and not working.
A school board member has tweeted publicly that it is just white kid's families that want to go back to school, indicating what, I'm not entirely sure.
We paid for and he took the classroom portion of Driver's Ed in November before turning 15; to date, he can't finish the class, get a permit, or learn to drive because they haven't scheduled the behind the wheel portion of the class. When I asked recently when that would happen for either of my boys? Here is the cut and paste of the entire sentence fragment + one complete sentence response: "Once they are assigned to a
driver. The driver will contact you."
Week one of return: two days completing remote school in school, three days off. And, he had the life lesson that the adults have all checked out hammered home.
