Changing to 2 days live 3 days at home to begin.

Yep. Sux. Wonder how this is going to affect sports for them

Trying to figure out a way to keep my grandkids caught up what with them only going to school 2 days a week. Us old folks ain't too spiffy with that technology stuff.

Dang it, Alabaster will not be far behind.

Its full blown train wreck. Might as well get your kids homeschooling room or space up and running this week or next.

What skinny said....

This is a disaster.

A LOT of kids are just not gonna do anything on the remote schooling Period.

Well I did give it 2 weeks but that may not even happen..

I wouldnt get too excited about any plans the schools have made just yet. They are all likely to be shut down pretty quick after opening. At that point, everybody will be in the same boat. Theyve had since march to come up with a plan and theyre not much closer to a good plan than they were then. Looks to me like in most cases its time to go back now, so they just threw something together. No consistency whatsoever. Schools just a few miles apart doing completely different things. Might be one of the biggest clusters in the history of the state. Six weeks from now, everything will have changed. No need in getting all worked up.

I'm not worked up jwalker. I'm just trying to figure out how I'm gonna edumacate my grandkids since they ain't gonna be in school.

Also, your post reminds me of the Republican fiasco when they controlled the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives for awhile and didn't do chit.

It is definitely a cluster.

X100

Lots of great educational content on YouTube and pay services like Great Courses Plus. I am a history nut and the amount of awesome historical content on YouTube alone is amazing.

I’m... let me put this nicely... very disappointed myself. I know there’s a lot that goes into a decision like this but I’m in the boat of you’re in or out.. If they are that worried out everyone’s health shut it down and we’ll homeschool...

In the spirit of trying to make you feel better about the situation: The online learning system is a good time tested system that is very easy for students to use and the stuudents learning online will retain and be able to use the information they learn online just as readily as classroom taught kids. Did that help? On the real, I ask my kids almost every day what they learned that day at school. Almost every day they say "nothing". Now I know theyre learning something, I guess they just dont realize it. Theyll learn from the online stuff too. I wouldnt worry about having to teach them yourself, just make sure they spend the required time on it. They probably wont ask you for much help and if they do, you can most likely look over it and give them a reasonable answer. Youll be ok and they will too. The schools will eventually get back to normal and yours wont be any further behind than anyone else.

We decided to go the home school route. All of our books arrived today. The kids are excited about it. I worked for a teacher at my kids school last week and she said she doesn't see how they're going to make it work.

Were homeschooling ours too. To be honest weve been a gnats hair from making that decision for a while. We are not afraid to send our kids to school because of the covid. That dont worry us a bit. Its all the crap thats going on in the schools because of the covid. Not to mention the plethora of misinformation that will be circulating when school starts back.

Florida schools are jacked up to.My wife was supposed to go back mid-August and last Monday gets an e-mail telling her to be in school that Friday.She had to change her flight home and I had to come back to Florida 10 days early

I'm sure our taxes will be refunded so we can educate our children as we see fit since the state has failed them all.

I like your optimism