Nick is "back" in school.
As of this writing, it has been one year since the children went home.
He has been in physical class on campus six times since they started rotating kids back in class over five weeks ago.
"I didn't think it was possible, but COVID school is worse than COVID remote learning."
He is quiet all day. All. day.
There are five kids maybe in his classes.
Two of his teachers don't teach in the school.
He sits and does remote learning while sitting in the classroom, in a mask, not talking, no interaction.
So far in high school, he has 56 class absences.
He didn't go to class, didn't turn in attendance, missed roll call, whatever the reason.
He has a 4.0 High School GPA, 4.25 when weighted for his Honors classes.
So, in addition to being the lunch lady, principal, janitor, driver's ed teacher, teacher, parent, counselor, and extracurricular manager, I have now failed at being truancy officer. However, it is really tough to actually care at this point, when no grades are affected for absence.
My favorite teacher to student, complete opposite comment from what Ben received, both being entirely inappropriate: the kids are "lazy" for wanting to go back to school because they just want the teachers to do everything for them.
Driver's Ed update: After being told they would finish their November class with the driving portion in February, we received an abrupt text message in March that the driving school is backed up and still doing the driving portion for the kids who took the class in June 2020.
So, just one more thing we'll do ourselves and out of step.
I'm exhausted.
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