Weekly Wrap Up - Meetings and Changes

This has been a long week, full of some really heavy issues.   Virginia's elected officials have been working overtime to put some pretty shocking things into place in our public school system by the start of this academic year.   Public schools here start August 5, so school boards and parents are having to make pretty quick, reactionary decisions.    This has caused a very adversarial situation both within the schools and in the school vs. homeschool arena.   Some counties are standing up and saying no, some are not.  Our area is a current hot spot.

Monday during the day was our current, typical schedule.  Olivia was out the door early to work.  I dropped Lindsey off early, picked her up at 9:30am and then we were at PT by 10am.  Monday night was our City School Board meeting.  I attended, and sadly, I was not shocked to see that they voted unanimously to put these things in place.   I was GREATLY disappointed, but not shocked.   The girls went to a local baseball game while I was at the meeting.

Tuesday was Lindsey's long nanny day.  In the evening after work, Olivia and I spent over two hours talking with the Marine recruiter.  We are still in an information collecting time, but I'm pretty sure she is going to enlist.  Lots of emotions tangled up there.   The girls were late for Jiu-jitsu, Lindsey is still not able to participate in classes, so she watches and makes notes.

Wednesday morning Lindsey had PT.  I had an interview with the local TV station at noon, to discuss homeschooling and to promote the homeschool informational meeting that a group of us put together for later in the evening.   It didn't take long for me to see that the reporter was trying to bait me into saying something that would make homeschoolers sound "phobic" (draw your conclusions based on that word).  I was able to side step all of that, and give some great information...all of which was met with "Um, yeah, so...." and then cut and spliced together to create an 8 second blurb that made it sound like people are just homeschooling because they are afraid of Covid.  Crazy.   The informational meeting went REALLY well.  We had roughly 100-150 people show up from different areas of the community.  

Thursday was more normal with just getting Lindsey to/from work, doing a grocery store run and then home to work on house work and laundry.  The girls had Jiu-jitsu in the evening and then they were off to the baseball game again.  I stayed home, decompressed and did a lot of researching on the Marine's website.

Friday morning I had to take Lindsey to feed the chickens/birds/cats.  She's animal sitting again due to a family emergency that took the owners out of town.  The husband was off work, so we plan to go out to lunch this afternoon.

The world is changing fast, not for the good in a lot of ways.  Be willing to stand up for what is right.