Kids are back in school!
Only...one of them is schooling at home and the other is back at school.
Colter is a Freshman at Teton High School. For the next thirty days, that is. Then he joins Annika, who is a 6th grader at the Idaho Virtual Academy. It's a virtual school, virtually in our living room.
Annika and I started yesterday but the preparation for this started the week before. Today is where the rubber hits the road because all the easy orientation and tutorials happened yesterday so we'll see how well we both do with the real stuff.
I say, we, because I'm learning side-by-side with them. I'm going back to school too. I never thought I'd be doing this. Then again, I never thought we would be living in Idaho either. So as their "learning coach" my role is supposed to be there to help them through their classes. At the information seminar, we were told that the learning coach is not so much the teacher to the kids as much as they are a mentor.
Well, if it walks and talks like a duck, it probably is.
But I kept that to myself. I decided to reserve judgement until the day I potentially find myself creating a crater-size hole on the wall with my head or sucking my thumb in a corner with drool dripping down the side of my mouth.
I know what you're thinking.
Who's hare-brained idea was this? While I've been known to think up some seriously stupid stuff in my life, I can honestly say that it wasn't me.
It was Jud's fault. He put this crazy thought into motion and I just kept the ball rolling. In the end, Annika, who initially said no, actually was more than eager to go to IDVA. Colter took a little longer. Actually, the jury is still out on that but we think that this could be a good move for both. We asked the kids why online schooling was appealing to them (notice, I didn't say homeschooling because I am still in denial) Anni wants to go to college sooner and Colter wants...well...food.
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