Only time will tell if any of us got this whole school thing right, but the girls are trying REAL hard to make me start to form an opinion now.
It's been months since I made the decision to withdraw from our school district and go with a public cyber school. There were a lot of factors, of course, but a big one is that I needed some sort of stability. I can deal with the girls being gone all day, home all day, needing a ride, not needing a ride, whatever ... but it needs to be consistent. I don't have the schedule flexibility or brain cells required to be at the mercy of other people and things right now. When so much is unknown, one thing needed to be known.
There have been lots of times that I hesitated when thinking about that decision. The fact of the matter is that anyone who says they know what to do is a liar. Nobody has the answers. We're all doing the best we can with limited data and ugh. UGH. It's a lot of suck.
The girls have had moments of thinking the decision sucked, too. Of course they want to spend their days with their friends. Mila's understanding of the situation is different from Alexis', of course, so it's a frequent topic at our house. Still, GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Be glad you have each other. This will end. Embrace the suck!
They have both embraced the suck. They had orientation today in preparation for school starting next week. Spending an hour learning about how to access their online classes led to them both logging in and ... starting their classes. Alexis already finished her first two days worth of school and Mila is done with one.
On their own.
Without my help.
Because they wanted to do it.
They might miss their friends (...we all do), but it looks like they're really going to like this new approach to academics.