School at home < homeschool

As I previously posted, we pulled my boy out of school and set up arrangements for homebound service. Well, these services are a complete joke. It took a month to actually find a teacher to come to the house. Then, she frequently points out that she typically works with high school students and doesn’t know what to do with a 3rd grader. The home teacher doesn’t actually teach; she picks up work from school (often without talking with the classroom teacher), delivers them to our house, and takes back things to be graded. Although I am sorry her friend’s husband passed away, I can’t help but feel that my son is falling farther and farther behind whenever the teacher doesn’t show up. Hopefully, now that he has both flu shots, we can put him back in school without too much disruption.

Flu Season & Dumb Rules

We pulled the Gamer out of school recently after many kids (including the one who sat right behind him) came down with the flu.  We had a medical plan in place ahead of time that states that he will be provided with homebound services from the school should this occur.  However, we were not informed of the crazy rules that they have in place for homebound students.  They state that should he be out in public (soccer practice, church, etc.) homebound services will be terminated.  The rationale: if he is too much at risk to be at school, he is too much at risk anywhere.  By trying to eliminate one major risk factor, they wanted him to live in a bubble (even though there is also risk at home!) Based on a doctor’s note about the benefits of exercise and Cystic Fibrosis, we have got them to let him finish the soccer season and receive homebound services, even though I wanted to pull him out totally and be done with this madness.