Becky2005
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I don't know yet -- I assume so but I guess we will find out soon enough. What I'll probably do after we have our back to school night is usually the teachers give you their e-mails then, I'll probably e-mail them. OR if I get papers from the teachers with their e-mails beforehand do that. I know we already got a note home from the Science teacher that we had to sign & give our e-mail addresses. She will be sending the syllabus via that or will be on the website (hope they give a link because as of right now -- there are no links to any of the teachers on her team).
I think they are dressing for gym for the first time today -- not really sure about that, so we shall see. Everything has been so topsy turvy this week.
Becky Alex didn't get home until 5:00 also. I thought several times of going to get him. But everytime I called the school they told me they would be leaving in a few minutes. I thought I would miss him if I left the house.
I'm having issues with the school and communication. They don't seem to have any.
Yesterday I got a phone call at 1:00 to ask if Alex was sick I said no why. They said cause he wasn't at schoolMy heart sank. I told them to check again. Long story really short there are 2 kids with similar names. Today the school office and I are going to be fast friends. I don't like them much right now. I nearly had a heart attack. How come there isn't a smilie about them(school) walking the plank.
I definitely would have been freaking out if I had gotten a phone call like that! Especially for my oldest when she's on her own to get to the bus so I really *don't* know if she's at school or not, so if they called me I would so freak out thinking she somehow didn't get on the bus and who knows what happened. At least with the grade schoolers I walk/drive them to school so I would know for a fact they were at the school.
As for the weather, yesterday AFTER everything was done, I got e-mail notices on what was going on. The problem was when the electricity went out, obviously no internet. When it came back up, we have a server in our house and it's DH's deal -- I know nothing. The internet wasn't connecting correctly so I had to wait until he got home to fix it. I *tried* to reset it and all but knew that I was either missing something or something got fried. Luckily, I just missed doing something to reset it.
However, they had taken kids that were on the busses either home or back to the schools (elementary ones) or to safe shelters -- so the busses I saw going around that I assumed were the Middle Schools were probably just the grade school ones or High School ones (since I believe Middle School was the last ones out since busses are shared). They did say that since the administrators/teachers were with the students -- they couldn't man the phones/cell phones and didn't get the messages up on the websites in a timely manner. I would have been OK if I had not seen the other busses, that's when I started freaking out wondering "where is my kid?". I thought the school office was open until 5 so waited until 4:45 to call & turns out they close at 4:30. OOPS!!!! Stuff like this is exactly why last year DD got a cell phone. In 6th grade she didn't get home until 7 pm once (normally 6 pm was the latest) and I had absolutely no way of reaching her -- I had no idea who to call, I knew the school was closed, wasn't sure about transportation department and ??? (that wasn't weather though that was late activity bus along with new bus driver that didn't know the route!). As soon as she made the cheerleading squad last year, I wasn't going through that heart attack panic again. She got her cell phone (that I took back after the season since it was a Christmas present and stuck a bow on it for her to stick under the tree!
)In general our school is pretty good with letting you know what's going on but on the one hand -- I've been at the grade school forever, so a lot of stuff I know just because I know it. The middle school I'm still figuring out -- I'm sure I'll learn a LOT more next year as my son goes -- totally different ballgame from my DD with personality and issues.
Becky - If we were walking home, and the tornado siren went off here, my DD would have freaked tooI'm glad you were almost home when that happened.
Yes, that was fun to have a 10 year old practically hyperventilating and I'm strolling the little guy trying to deal with the older one (as if there was anything I could do at the moment with where we were at) and then also had the 7 year old -- who wasn't freaked out at all (but he's my mellow kid, you don't really ever know if he's freaked out because he gets rather quiet/silent when he is rather than "doomsday" screaming/freaking out) -- poor thing had to use the restroom though. He had to go at school but once we were told about the weather issue, told him he had to hold it and we would just try to get home ASAP. I ended up handing the house keys over to the 10 year old and then both the older boys ran to the house while I continued to walk fast/jog after the siren went off -- I'm just not in that good of shape to sprint, while pushing the stroller and keep up with them. ESPECIALLY since the 10 year old has energy to spare (wish I could bottle that & sell it!
). If I could just convince him that in situations like this you *HAVE* to stay calm even if you aren't on the inside because you are just going to make things worse if you don't.I did drive everyone to school today. DD just to the bus stop and sure enough, just as I suspected, the bus comes EARLY again this year (6 minutes earlier than the time listed). She definitely needs to leave 5 minutes earlier this year than last because the bus time was listed earlier. We had been having her do that but I wasn't sure if it was really too early to leave but now I'm convinced it's not. This way even if she has to stand and wait, better than missing it. No way she would make it if she left the same time as last year. I will probably drive to pick up the boys today (depending on what it looks like at dismissal time but since it's still supposed to be yucky most of the day today, that's what I'm thinking).
At least this weekend is supposed to be nice right? We are having our Back to School picnic/fun fair on Saturday. I wonder if anything will be dry by then.
Maybe next week will be normal for weather (yes, I know, it's Chicago - the weather is completely unpredictable.
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Hope everyone is alright!!!!
By then they were way off our area and into warning the closer cities to Chicago. So, I try to turn on the internet which wasn't working. I never did find out anything about the street he was talking about though.
So, I'm sitting at the Reference desk helping a patron and the power goes out, and I'm thinking "What's the deal??" Then I heard the winds and rain. HOLY! I looked out the windows and the trees were blowing so hard, they looked like they do in hurricane weather!! So, we're all standing around dumbfounded (staff and patrons) and finally, the director announces that there was a tornado warning in Evanston (we're in Glenview) and so everyone must go into the library's basement. One patron came up to me and asked if I knew when the power was coming back on, because she was in the middle of an email. SERIOULSLY??? 
I called Kevin right away, and he wasn't happy
done before round 49 of storms comes through and DS wants to use the computer.
