School's Out?

So the governor of Virginia has closed schools for kids for the year. They've applied for a waiver for SOLs with the feds and...are they doing online classes? This seems to be up in the air slash up to the individual counties? I know our county had already said that while kids were being sent home with packets that the work wasn't required.

All of this has mostly been a passing sort of "huh" to me because homeschooling.

And yet, I'm a little irritated that, thus far, the state is holding the line on us having to submit our proof of adequate yearly progress, i.e. testing.

Is it a big deal? Not really. Not in the overall scheme. But the double standard is frustrating.

Plus with youngest's issues, not having to worry about trying to test him and/or find an evaluator (someone who's willing and able to come out and assess his progress in person) would have been a nice relief.

Anyway, we're continuing apace locked up here at home with no social contact (wheeee).

And while I thought this was going to be a short-lived, survivable thing, I begin to worry that it's going to go on forever and the folks who have been pushing for socialism are going to sneak it in while everyone is panicked and hiding in their basements.