Distance Learning Day Three

 

While the purpose of this blog is to document what is going well and what is not going well with Madison's distance learning so I have something to refer to when I call her next IEP, today's blog is just more of a "woah is me blog".  🤪

I wasn't able to really monitor what happened during her classes, as I was in a five hour virtual staff meeting during most of the hours Madison was "at school".  

This was my morning:

In front of me, lots of computers and lots of beverages:

Behind me, rockin' the screen room divider I just purchased so I can pretend that everything behind me is not complete chaos while I am zooming. 😂

And WAY behind me - this adorable chick:

I kind of feel like this is an era of smoke and mirrors and I don't like it one bit.  (But I do love my room divider!)

I basically just hopped in and out of my meeting so I could get Madison logged into each of her classes and cross my fingers she didn't do anything too wild.  And of course, this was they day her school was on "minimum day schedule"; so she had a new class every half hour.  This whole block schedule, A-B day thing (except on Wednesdays of course) is ridiculous.  In my humble opinion.

The good news....  Besides a bit of a glitch during first period, there were pretty much no technical difficulties (that I'm aware of).  That's impressive.

Taking a break in between classes:

The bright spot of our day was that her amazing friend Ciara came over around 11, took her to get some lunch, and got her logged in to her last class.  

Apparently Madison needed some lipstick on for 7th period (her teacher thought she had a nose bleed😆):

Then Ciara took Madison to go visit her dog and even brought the dog back home with Madison!

So really not a lot of info. I could give to her IEP team, but at least I got some fun pics!  I'm not really sure how I am going to keep up with this blog and truly document everything that is going on with each class, but at least I have the first three days on record.  😉

As I start to see everyone else's adorable "first day of school" pics, I am just filled with so much sadness for everyone.  I can't believe this has happened.  It's truly terrible.  I see you all working so hard trying to make this work and trying to remain positive, and I admire you.