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You may be wondering what happened to Noah after Tuesday, last week. Perhaps the emails we sent made a difference, as it turned out Noah had a much better day and came home happy. It wasn’t perfect, but much better. He was allowed to have a coat on the walks, and he did get some teaching.

We sent him to school with a face shield, he came home with the shield on over the top of a face mask. Apparently one devise is not enough protection from children.

It’s noteworthy to say that the “in person, half day’s” are currently only for Monday and Tuesday. We don’t know if that will change at all this year; no one knows.

Today Noah came home OK. It is difficult to really know how his day goes as Noah is not good at communicating things. This is very normal for an autistic child. It is pretty normal for a child who is not special needs.

As I mentioned last week, when Noah arrives to his class, at 9 am, he first gets on the computer for a zoom class with his General Education teacher and all his third-grade classmates. He did that at home, and still does for the remainder of the week. Noah cannot negotiate the internet process to zoom a class on his own. Truth is, neither can I, and his mom, who is a teacher struggles occasionally with the process; it changes often with little notification. Noah’s teachers have problems with it regularly. Today we find out that his teachers want Noah to learn to work through the process on his own.

Noah shares his classroom with two other students, fourth and fifth graders. With the three students are three “teachers”, one to each student. Noah missed his half hour zoom this morning because his instructor wouldn’t help him log on. She insisted that he had to do it on his own. So, he sat there confused and lost for the half hour duration of the class.

Perhaps it is difficult to do hands-on teaching while social distancing from six feet away.

Another email is already on its way.