During the Global Pandemic

7/31/2020

Life as we know it has completely changed. In March 2020, the novel coronavirus rapidly spread throughout the world. Since then millions of people have been infected and hundreds of thousands have died. 

Starting in March much of the country shut down. Davis and I started working from home. I was busy because we had to notify all the ticket holders about changes to the shows. Then we wanted to keep them thinking about us so I had to look for ways to keep them connected with emails and social media posts.

The schools closed at the same time right as they were supposed to return from spring break. Some districts switched to online classes but the South Panola School District couldn't do that because they couldn't ensure that all the students had access to computers and internet. Elsa and Bianca's teachers encouraged doing some of the online learning programs they would do at school and put together packets of worksheets that could be downloaded or picked up at school. Alex's teachers used Google classroom to make assignments. However, they weren't required to do the work and didn't receive any grades for the rest of the school year. Alex did all of his work. Elsa did a little bit. Bianca did almost none. 

Bianca is worried about being behind when school starts and can't really understand that all her classmates are in the same place. We have pretty much decided to send her to the Montessori school this year. I think it will be a good reset for her. We almost certainly won't be able to afford more than one year.