ILP remote schooling / remote working thread for general venting and yelling FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU!!!!!

Yesterday, my daughter's school partially re-opened with a hybrid option. This means some kids attend in person for part of the week and some kids remain fully virtual (we picked fully virtual). After classes let out today, we got a call from the school that a student who showed up yesterday had tested positive for covid and a bunch of people have to quarantine. So that sucks.

On the other hand, last week my high-schooler returned to his welding class at the vocational school and that's been going well. In a couple weeks, he'll return to regular high school on a hybrid schedule as well. My daughter enjoys the total virtual instruction, but it's been driving him nuts.

That's bad timing re the covid case at school - hope it looks up from there.
Am quietly and cautiously celebrating tonight being - for now anyway - the last night I have to print out worksheets and prepare another day of 'home learning' which inevitably ends up in tears at some point. Cases are low enough where I am that I'm not too worried about any imminent Covid risk. I'll be on edge at least until we get vaccinated but god, school is very much needed for my kid.

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Hey, I'm late to the party as usual, but just got a positive test. I'm not asymptomatic but it's a pretty lowkey cold (so far).

What was your approaches to distancing at home when you had it and the kids didn't? We have a small flat so I don't see many options outside of "fuck it and carry on as normal"

Isolating from each other just isn’t an option in our flat, so we crossed our fingers and hoped the vaccines would protect us. First time around, Stet and our son got it but not me. Second time around, only our son got it.

I've had my first ever positive test, symptoms like a bad head cold but not as bad as the one I had the other month, I've slept a lot but am able to get up and move around and function fairly normally. No chance of self isolating, I'm still doing our 6 year old's bedtime and sleeping in her room. Luckily she's no longer completely averse to testing.

And now said 6 year old has it. Maybe I should have slept in a different room, maybe she'd have got it anyway.

One of my friend's kids had aymptomatic Covid last month, and her two brothers got jealous and asked her to breathe on them so they could catch it too. But it didn't work! So I'm not sure distance is the only variable here.

We've been distancing (as much as possible with an excited two-year-old, i.e. not as much as would be helpful) and keeping the windows open, and they're okay so far, but I'm guessing it won't last long.

My partner is doing her school job from home, and looking after our daughter, while I isolate and work in the bedroom. Feeling super guilty right now and missing hugs, which is weighing on my worse than the actual covid (which is bad but not terrible)

Lord what a nightmare this was.

it was. I had to think really hard about how many school closures we actually had. I forgot the one where kids went back to school for one day after Christmas then Boris did a 180 and decided to close them, after everyone had mixed for a day, the clown. That was long.

Apparently we have teacher strikes to look forward to - which I support, and will only be the odd few days.

My kids grades tanked so badly during this time and are only just recovering now. A students to F and D students. my son was in 4th grade when everything shut down and now he still writes (prints) like a fourth grader. Thinking about getting him one of those old school printing books.