Confessions of a COVID Homeschool Mom
I never, in a million years, had any intention of homeschooling my kids. Ever. For one, I didn’t really understand what homeschool IS - I thought homeschool was either regular school at home for eight hours a day, or ultra religious families who wanted to teach flat-eartherism and creationism. For another, I’m a single parent and it just wan’t an option when I worked full-time. My kids had to be in school or day-care when they were younger. But then I retired from the Air Force. And then COVID-19 happened and schools shut down in March 2020. Of course, we all know what happened then... NO ONE DID WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO ...so schools went to virtual learning. When the county we were in announced they were going to virtual learning for the first nine weeks of the 20/21 school year, I knew it was not going to work for Declan and Harper. The end of 2nd grade was honestly horrible for everyone. It wasn’t the teachers - let's be clear about that. They were both fantastic and