Tuesday, December 22nd, was day 62 of the Abrome pandacademic year, the last day of cycle four, and our last day of 2020. It’s been quite a ride thus far, in spite of all of the disruption and struggle faced by members…
read moreDay 61 was the last Monday of the fourth cycle of the Abrome pandacademic year. It was also the first day of winter. In the morning meeting I asked the remote cell, how will you celebrate the 1st day of winter? They…
read moreDangerously close to risk stage level five December 18th, was day 60 of this pandacedemic year and it was our last Friday of this fourth of eleven cycles of the year. Although we are wrapping up the calendar year soon, we are…
read moreDay 58, Wednesday, December 16th, meant that we only had five days left in the cycle. Because we require prospective Learners to shadow with us for five days, those who wished to enroll for January needed to begin shadowing no later than…
read moreAfter a long week, last week, for non-Abrome related reasons (e.g., so is this a coup?), I was better rested and fully ready for a great week at Abrome. In spite of all that was going on outside of Abrome last week,…
read moreThe first week of our third cycle was a lot for many of us. The election that some of us had feared would be a black swan event had exhausted us long before election day, and as expected, election night amped everything…
read moreSometimes when families are considering homeschooling they get the question, “but what about socialization?” The argument is that schooling is where children become socialized, and taking them out of school will deny them that opportunity. There are many problems with this argument,…
read moreLike many others, I lost sleep on election night. I tried to go to bed at 8:00 p.m., but I did not fall asleep until around 10:00 p.m., and then woke up in the middle of the night just as Trump was…
read moreTuesday was election day, so I was not quite sure what to expect from the Learners. I imagined that many of them, or at least their families, were quite anxious about what was to come, and I wanted to find ways to…
read moreThe first day of our third cycle was bittersweet. The sweet: Being able to be together again for the third of eleven planned cycles for this academic-plandemic year is something to celebrate. Just last week, a record 61,000 children got Covid-19 last…
read moreForecasted thunderstorms mandated our first half-day of the year Friday was the final day of the second cycle of this first full pandemic academic year. My body was still recovering from the fall I took running the retaining wall on Monday, so…
read moreThursday would be the penultimate day of the cycle for us, and I was hoping that it would be a joyful day. Unlike the prior day it looked like everyone was going to be present, and on time, and I was looking…
read moreEach morning I wake up at 5:00 a.m., and three days a week I go for a run, and five days a week I write something (like this blog post), and then I do a bunch of hurried administrative work, and then…
read moreOn Tuesday I was looking to get the cell to move around a bit after a pretty sedentary day on Monday. Even though it was going to be a hot day I brought Cuddle Buddies Ingrid and Ivan, with the intention of…
read moreLast week was a week of moving around as most Learners were jumping in the water and swimming and going on hikes. The first day of week three of this cycle was the opposite, we mostly stayed in one place for much…
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