Back To School: The Nightmare Situation Happening in Georgia

The insane way my Georgia county is handling school during this pandemic.

We are all experts in carrying the heavy load of parental guilt if we have children. Second guessing every choice you make is a sure fire way to know you’re doing the parenting thing right. Every bump they get, every fever, and every heartache will somehow be traced back to something you did wrong in your mind. Sometimes, it will be traced back to you in their minds too. So, as parents, we make the decision we think is best at the moment and try to stick with it.

This year has been a doozy for parents all over the world. Do we send them to school to get sick? Do we school them at home to get stupid? Everywhere you look someone is judging someone else for the decision they made in a time of extreme stress and duress. There is no need for all that judging. We are all judging ourselves enough and we all are messing things up equally. Now is the time to sit back and support each other. Because after you read the remainder of this article, you will have lost all hope in mankind ever not being a bunch of idiots despite their prime position at the top of the food chain.

At the last minute, per the usual, I ended up making the decision to send my kids back to school. This was a result of my inadequacies as a teacher, my full time work load, and the extreme pressure my children put on me not to ruin everything for them. Since I am unable to stay home, home schooling was never a viable option for our family. Before sending them, I felt like decent safety measures were being taken, between the school system and myself, so I was reasonably optimistic.

High School

My oldest son went back to high school, although not in the way he is used to going on Monday. Instead of going Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 3 pm, he is going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday only from 7:30 to 10:30 am. I don’t know what they expect to do during this short week, but he’s there anyway.

May the luck be in his favor to finish his senior year with both an actual high school diploma and an adequate education.

Middle School

My eight grader goes only on Tuesday and Thursdays one week, then Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays the next week. The days they are not in the classroom, they are to sign into google classroom and do online studies. Thanks a lot, Board of Education. I can see that you hate me.

Even with his almost non-existent schedule, he still missed all of the first week because he suddenly caught a dual case of strep throat and mono.

He claims he has not been kissing anyone, but his mama is no fool. I will find out who that little hussy is. But I digress.

Elementary School

Prepare for the most shocking and unbelievably ridiculous part of my article. My youngest daughter was happy to go back to elementary school this year as the queen of the schoolyard. She is finally a fifth grader. She is the dominant grade at a school filled with three year olds, pre-k, up to eleven year old fifth graders.

With that being said, the dumbass powers that be decided that the youngest ones out of our learners, with their grubby, germ infested hands and non-existent hygiene habits deserved to be the lucky ones who got to retain a full schedule. No changes from last year at all were implemented. That’s right, they decided to send the weakest links to a germ zone for forty hours a week in a viral pandemic.

The kids that have already gotten all their required immunizations and have a pretty mature immune system only have to go a mere two or three days a week.

I have heard many theories and stupid people grasping at straws trying to make this seem sensical. It never works though.

Am I the only one who is confused by this? Did Trump start making decisions for my local school system suddenly? Is this a Twilight Zone episode? I have so many questions about why and how this is the result of some kind of half assed plan to reduce COVID cases in our county.

In all honesty, and with no sarcasm, I truly believe my dog could have made a better education plan than this. Is this the result of a drunk decision making process that happened at a party? Is someone being blackmailed? Blink if you are in danger.

Seriously, though, what in the actual fuck?

Kylie finds herself funny and is a mixture of sarcasm, White Zinfandel, attitude, and love. In addition to humoring herself, she also is a Real Estate Agent and a Property Manager. She lives in Georgia with her huge, loud family.