School board meeting, 6:30 – 9, 2.5 hrs, not bad. Slightly worse when you add in the 1.5 hr school board retreat yesterday, and the 1.5 hr school-board related meeting on Tuesday.
Never mind reading the e-mails and the board meeting notes AND this week, a many-page legal brief because I had to decide how I wanted to vote on whether the school should participate in a class action lawsuit, and I was apparently feeling compulsive. (We were not expected to read the lawsuit.) I voted to abstain, which I hardly ever do, but this was a weird one, where I agreed about the problem, but wasn’t sure this particular lawsuit was the right solution.
But none of that was actually all that bad. What was bad was that I came downstairs to head out to the meeting, and Kavi and Kevin were sitting at the dining table with all her schoolwork spread out in front of her, and she was in tears. Apparently she had a big AP bio test tomorrow, and she was completely confused because none of the study materials looked at all familiar and she was going to flunk the test and AAIIGGHH…
…and all I could do was hug her and talk about it for maybe five minutes, and then I had to go and leave her teary self in Kevin’s hands. THAT was hard.
Kavi is fine now, don’t worry — I came home, and it turns the test tomorrow is actually a quiz, and she and Kevin rewatched all the videos that she’d already watched previously and this time they took notes, and then they took the practice quiz and she got a 100, so Kavi’s FINE, she just gets overwhelmed sometimes and tends to catastrophize, we’re working on her coping skills, it’s a process. Also, AP Bio is kind of overwhelming at first, it seems like.
Just hard to walk away from teary child for a board meeting tonight. This post is really all about me, not her. 