Assuming the kids go to school today, this will be the first "full week" of school they have had since face-to-face started at the beginning of the month. Since a full week in the building is currently just two consecutive days, today will be only their fourth day at school.
So February has been frustrating.
Of course, nobody could have predicted the snowstorms. That doesn't make it any less sigh-inducing that school was canceled three Tuesdays in a row. (And since last Monday was an already-scheduled day off, they didn't step foot in their school building even once last week.)
Next Monday and Tuesday are also at-home days for the kids in order to give teachers a little more leeway as they schedule their second COVID-19 vaccine.
All in all, I still wish the district would have opted to keep the kids in Zoom school full time until the classrooms could be open full time. I'm sure they're getting a lot out of their two days in the classroom, but I'm not sure it makes up for the lack of teacher instruction the other three days of the week. (Of course, many kids throughout the district were showing up to Zoom school only a little or not at all, so these two days are better than nothing.) Asynchronous assignments can go only so far.
Ironically, we didn't get one snow day last school year, but that was more than made up for when school buildings closed for 11 months thanks to the pandemic. Luckily the weather is supposed to reach into the 40s this week, so hopefully the snow will melt and I will be able to see our front yard again for the first time in 3+ weeks.
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