Have a fabulous Friday. This is the last Friday of homeschooling. Hopefully for ever. You made it. You kept your children educated, didn’t kill anyone, kept your job and your sanity.
“Woah!” you say, “Let’s not go that far!”
But you did it. You survived and on Monday you get to hand them over to someone else for six hours a day.
I’m not even going to entertain the idea that the government have made another mistake. They’ve got over 90% uptake of the vaccine so far and therefore it doesn’t matter if it’s too early, the NHS surely can’t collapse before we have herd immunity now.
Many children, parents and teachers are looking forward to getting back to school. It won’t be normal but it will be something.
I keep thinking that what it will be is noisy. Do you remember how loud it is with 30 people in one room? No. Me neither and so today I am going to make the most of the fabulous quiet. Parents, however, are going to get some of their peace back.
In primary schools, before the culture of ‘every second counts’ took over, Friday afternoon was Golden Time, where the children got to choose. They could play with Lego or draw or even write on the teacher’s board and teachers could crack on with a bit of marking, while keeping one eye out for the occasional fight that would break out over the gold crayon. Many of the parents I have been speaking to have earned a Friday afternoon Golden Time and I hope they enjoy every second of this fabulous Friday.
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