Songbird76
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Thanks. I'm making one of her favorites for dinner tonight...hopefully that will pick her up a bit. But yes, she works so hard and she swears she knew that material in Math. It was on the Pythagorean Theorum and she said she had done all the homework, gotten all the right answers, did practice questions and got all those right, too, so she doesn't understand how she got such a low grade on her test. I told her she'll just have to ask her teacher to see her test next time she has math. There could be so many things...she forgot to answer some questions, she made a stupid mistake like plugging a number in the wrong place, her teacher got her mixed up with someone else and posted the wrong grade to her profile, the teacher counted wrong....so many possibilities. So I told her not to panic, but wait until she can look at the test and see what happened. And even if she DID get a 65% on this test, most of her class is failing math. The fact that she had a 98% average is AWESOME, and a 90% is still fantastic. 1/3 of her class is in danger of having to redo the year and not being able to continue with the dual immersion program. You have to have at least 55% to pass....her LOWEST grades are 70% (which is considered good here). The majority of her grades are above an 80%...she's at the top of her class academically. I'm super proud of her...but she's a perfectionist and wants the perfect scores.
I read an article today that the district administration made the decision to scrap all the international trips. It wasn't just E's school, but ALL schools in the district...like, 15 schools. But I don't get how they are keeping the schools open if they are so worried about the outbreak that they cancel a trip to the UK. The UK has 4 times the population of the Netherlands, and has fewer confirmed cases....they are safer there than they are here. So if they don't want to take the risk of sending them to the UK, why are they willing to take the risk of being at school? It doesn't make sense.
But a friend of mine in Northern Ireland said (and I looked it up, because that's what I do) they were moving to stage 2, social distancing, in their plan against an epidemic. That means people will work from home, schools will close, etc. So she said even if the trip happened, everything would be closed and the kids wouldn't get to do anything. If that's the case, I would think the insurance would HAVE to cover the cost because I would assume that travel restrictions would also be in place. I can't imagine asking people to stay home but then accepting foreign tourists to enter the UK. I guess we'll see how it plays out.
