Teacher Strike

Running a dayhome and trying to home school kids with their school text books is LOTS of work!

The teachers union here served strike notice and the kids have not been in school since February 15th. So now we have "school" at home.

Some point in every day the kids have to do math, science, social studies, reading, "life skills" (a.k.a. housework), and whatever else I can think of. Phys. Ed class is delivering papers, going for a walk, or some other such activity.

Megan also has music class, where she practices her piano for her lesson on Wednesday. Today she started Home Ec. cooking class with her new teacher, Rick! I teach everything else, I figured he can cover that class.

Yesterday, we started a little bit more of a routine for school. It includes my oldest dayhome boy working on a preschool workbook that he has. He has to do at least four pages before he can go play. It seems to help keep Denver on task a bit too.

I sure hope this thing ends soon! It is trying my patience and messing up the daily routine! It seems like the kids are hardly ever in school since the Christmas holidays ended! They already had 2 snow days and a bunch of PD days. Why wasn't there ever a strike when we were in school?