Well, that was a week

 We made it through the first week. 

Shall I go on?

I now understand why the school year starts on a Wednesday or Thursday, a five day week to start is a bit much. I was ready to nap every day, but usually am most days. But that was not the deal.

The week was going alright, it is difficult to get into the normal rhythm of teaching, with some of the students there, and others not there, and the class length not being the same. But the Thursday happened. up until Thursday, the Internet was working fine, then it fell apart, it blew up, it crashed, it was ugly. We would drop a few times in a class period. Not very happy with that. We are supposed to teach all classes synchronously. The union went to the Superintendent Thursday afternoon, and we got limited permission to teach asynchronously. Most of my summer planning was for asynchronous teaching, this was a good thing. Friday rolls around. and our connection continued to be flaky. Friday is the day all but students with 'special considerations' are at home. I quickly drafted Email to each class, pointing them to their assignments, and let them know they needed to try to connect, and if they could not, send an email. That worked.

We will see how the rest of the week goes