Monday: decisions

 Well, we made a decision.  We're going to keep doing virtual school for the next trimester.

Most of September I wasn't expecting this decision.  Things were looking stable and at least under controlish.  But there is now community spread.  Some things that were were worried about in August might not apply any more, but numbers are still going up and we've just hit the beginning of winter/Thanksgiving/Christmas and several factors that we considered in August are still applicable.  Virtual school also isn't going too poorly.  Isaac gets more time to do his work, so if he needs to go slowly sometimes it's ok.  Joshua still loves his teacher.  The whole pace of the day is somewhat slower (for the boys) which isn't bad at all.  They're learning fine.  They don't have as much social interaction as they would in school, but neither is anyone else.

So I think this continues to be a good decision for us.  The boys are fine with it.  I still understand why parents would send their children to school and think that can be a good decision too.  

Here's to another four months at home.  (Although note my lack of an exclamation point.)