{"id":10038,"date":"2020-03-13T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2020-03-14T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:28:23","slug":"covid-19-you-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=10038","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19, You Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had just sat down at Daniel’s IEP meeting when Governor Inslee announced that all K-12 schools in Washington would be closing for the next six or more weeks<\/u><\/strong>, effective March 17th. The teachers and specialists present were feeling sick over it because they love their kids something fierce. They’re feeling sick over it because parents like me are being put in really difficult positions where our jobs could be on the line because being stay-at-home parents and homeschooling our kids is not a luxury we have. (I’m a single mom. I *HAVE*<\/strong> to work. I’m waiting to find out if I can work with students remotely until Daniel can go back to school.) They’re feeling sick over it because they know the kids are going to have a hell of a time dealing with school, the one place some of them feel joy, is being taken away from them.<\/p>\n

I honestly feel myself like everything that brings me joy is being systematically taken away. My church is functionally shut down for the next two weeks at least. (I’ll be there Sunday only because I’m part of the effort to live stream worship, but there are only going to be 5 of us present and we’re basically going to record stuff and then vacate the premises.) Daniel’s teacher, aides, and specialists are part of my support network with him, and now I’m losing them for six weeks. My degree program, which transitioned into a job for me, was 75% of what got me through my divorce, and now I’m uncertain about how much of a job I’m going to have come April 5th.<\/p>\n

I’m honestly pretty angry with the world right now, and it seems like Satan is rubbing salt in my wounds by throwing tone-deaf remarks from homeschooling parents in my path about how interesting it is that everyone is going to be homeschooling now, how we’ll never stop once we start, how we withdraw our kids from their public schools, and\/or how we give notice that we’re going to homeschool them. They all seem to be from the people who are the absolute last people I would seek out for advice on the subject, especially because they managed to raise some screwed-up, sociopathic, and\/or barely literate kids. All the people I would seek out for advice have been classy enough to trust that I’ll seek them out if\/when I need their help. (I have a large number of behaviorists and special education teachers in my friend group.)<\/p>\n

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