Took my 2 kids (7th and 9th grade) to school this evening to pick up their class schedules, text book, and school planners (similar to a day planner). We've been in this charter school system since they were in K and 2nd grade. And this year, by far, has been THE easiest start-of-the-year-pick-up-your-stuff-drop-off-forms event.
You had to sign up online ahead of time on Sign Up Genius. Only 20 students per 30-minute window. Had to take our temps at home, write down temps on a form & I had to sign the form attesting that none of us had COVID-19 symptoms.
Turned in the standard start of the year forms. Then we were directed into the school hallways...which were all marked one way only with tape on the floor...and all along the hallways they had EVERY student's stuff stacked up in neat piles one after another in alphabetical order based on last name & by grade.
OMG IT WAS SO ORGANIZED AND FABULOUS AND EASY! THEY SHOULD DO IT THIS WAY EVERY YEAR!
My 9th grader wasn't given any school supply list. That will come out from each of her teachers on 1st day of school (Wednesday) in each of the teachers' welcome letters.
They were also given their login IDs and passwords for Microsoft Teams. My 7th grader's schedule is such that when she goes in person starting the day after Labor Day, all of her classes are basically in 2 rooms and the teachers go from 1 classroom to another from 1 period to the next instead of all the students doing that.
Plus, only 30% of the families are sending their kids in person. So I'm a pretty happy camper.
Of course, when we were ready to go, my car wouldn't start. Battery is totally and completely dead. 2 attempts to jump start it didn't work. This is what I get for hardly driving anywhere in that car for the past 5 months. Oh and it was 111 outside when THAT happened. That part was a poop sandwich.
At least my 7th grader got the elective she wanted. And she got an awesome math teacher this year. And she got the foreign language she was hoping for. Hard to believe ODD is starting high school the day after tomorrow.
A friend of mine had her kids start their new school year today. She home schools them. She took pics of each of them...like so many parents do...1st day of school photo. Only this time, each of them wore a mask and held up a roll of toilet paper in the photo.