The first message I received once back home was the bus-kid telling me the extra math lessons has to be joined.
"No, way!"
This is mom speaking and I don't agree. I am not going to sit in a troubled car with one child and wait for one to two hours till the next one finally shows up. Besides that child already leaves at 5:30 and joins a school where there's no break, no lunchtime which means it cannot eat for the whole day. The bus-kid says "okay", while I still grumble on. It's good to have a mom who doesn't agree. It makes refusing to the teacher way easier.
"A good student doesn't need extra lessons. Why do those teachers not invest in those who need it?"
My day is over at the time I need to pick up the children at the bus station in town. I drag with water bottles, trash, a bottle of gas, and feel so damned tired. Cooking is already a hard task. Those teachers had three months time to think out a schedule there's no need to come up with extra lessons 6 days later.
"What changed in the schedule you have?"
"None", the youngest says while searching for a time to take the bus tomorrow two hours later than it's a sibling. This means it stays in bed while I get out at 4 am and need to drive extra up and down to town. I'll be the one busy whole day taking in and out the car's battery. I am the one dealing with the stress if the miserable lemon refuses to start.
"I still want to write something. Any news in the world?"
"Now you mention it. There's a student with the coronavirus and the whole class and all teachers who teach that specific class is sent home. Home quarantine." The bus-kid suddenly remembers the news of the day.
"Is the school disinfected, do they ventilate the whole day on? What about the other students? The buses they take, the student homes?"
It's about 30°C and the school never opens a window. No ventilation. No one cleans or disinfects the place. The boy who is infected is a sportsman and visits gyms that's all we know plus the message if you feel sick you need to stay home and call your doctor.
How many people, young people will do that? I have my doubts about it.
I feel sick for months as a result of allergies and so does the bus-kid. We do not call the doctor and do not visit one. We stay as much as out of the way of people as we can. Our only contact with the outside world is school, the bus, and the shop.
Let's see what happens next. How long this school remains open if lessons will be given online. There's clearly not one policy if it comes to all schools, each school does as it likes.
It is a very difficult situation. You must take two children to school. They at school do not keep their distance or maintain hygiene. Now they also require more hours to stay in such a place. Crazy!