This year was everything but normal. Little did we know at the start of Kindergarten, 5th and 8th grades, that we would be ending the school year from home utilizing distant learning. We were blissfully living life when smack dab in the middle of it all, everything, including traditional learning in the classroom, came to a screeching halt.
We left school that March afternoon, with an unsettling feeling, and some concerns. But never did I ever think we wouldn’t go back. I thought for sure we’d step foot in the doors at least once. Boy was I wrong.
By the end of the year, and with learning behind us, we listened as plans to exchange our items (library books, chromebooks, desk supplies that had been left behind....and let’s not forget Regans lockers!) were laid out. Plans that included masks and gloves and orders to “stay in your car”.
It made me cry. This was not how the year was supposed to end.
We were supposed to have year end parties, valley fair trips, field trips and graduations. And frankly, I was so sad about it all.
But these kiddos are resilient, and this will go down in their history books.
The schools were amazing, and despite our heartbreak, we moved forward. They set out to help us celebrate and held (reverse) parades.
We cried.
We smiled!
And felt a little anxious.
But those celebratory parades helped give us some positive closure.
And now it’s on to: High school, Middle school and first grade!
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GJ: ;( quite a lesson for all of us.
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