Back to School? Looks That Way...

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Well, after two days off for the weekend (during which I was pretty sick), followed by two days (Monday and Tuesday) off for the flu, followed by two days off for snow, it looks like we'll have school tomorrow on a regular schedule.

Depending on your source for weather information, we have a 20-30% chance of snow flurries in the morning. Tazewell County here in Virginia is on a two hour delay. McDowell County, acorss the line in WV where I work, is not yet on a delay. And at the moment, no West Virginia school system is on a delay. It's conceivable that we could get one: run off from melting snow will probably freeze on some roadways. But the temperatures are only suppose to drop into the mid-20's, so salt should fix that...

I think I remembered the routine for getting ready to go. The coffee maker is set, the lunches are made, the clothes are ironed.

If we keep with our normal calendar, I think we give up about 90 minutes of instruction tomorrow for activities connected to our school behavior program. It's called Free Fun Friday. Kids who haven't violated the behavior policy go to a fun activity. Kids who have go to "re-teaching" - which, in the context of a behavior program, I always thought sounded like something out of Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago.

Anyway, it will be nice to be back at school...