Saying it was a rough start would be an understatement. We are an Apple product family and so using Windows for the first time in a decade didn't help at all. The school gave them each a Windows based tablet/computer. I was eager to set expectations right from the start and that meant setting a breakfast/scripture reading time each morning at 8 am. I don't really care what time they begin working but they must have breakfast and scripture study with me. That isn't negotiable because they will start working early and not remember to eat until 11 am and then be really grumpy from not taking time to eat a good breakfast.
The boys began their day by getting up at 7 am and getting a jumpstart on their work. They each began with Language Arts. I knew we were in trouble when they were still working on same subject four hours later. They were grumpy/mouthy/disrespectful and I was ready to put them in the car and head to the nearest middle school to drop them off. I'm sure glad Mario wasn't home that morning because he wouldn't have tolerated their disrespectful behavior towards me. They both would have been grounded for at least a month or more. But I'm a pushover and all I could do was laugh at how dumb I was to think that online school may actually work for us.
Fortunately, by lunchtime, we took a break to go watch the eclipse and to eat. They finished up Language Arts and moved on to the other subjects which proved to be much easier. I'm sure getting accustomed to the new computers helped. The boys worked well into the late afternoon and had a lot of Tuesday's work completed too. Fortunately by time Mario came home from work, peace had been once again restored at the Perez home. But it did make for some good memories and I'm pretty sure our morning became a comedy routine for Mario's first ROTC class.
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