Tuesday, March 09, 2021

One Year Later. Take Two!

I wrote a message to Silas' pre-K teacher on Wednesday, March 13, 2020 excusing him from school for a reason I now can't recall. The day before may well have been his last in-person day because by week's end all school children had been sent home due to COVID-19's arrival in Chile. Many - if not most - remain at home nearly a year later, and Silas was one of them. 

Starting Pre-K in March 2020

Until today! Today Silas with a whopping ONE other classmate reentered their preschool (out of six who are currently signed up to return.) While it has never been a large jardin, typically it was made up of four classes of ten or more students. Sadly, during the long time it stood vacant the jardin was vandalized with most items of value stolen and also flooded when a pipe burst. How well they can recover remains to be seen. To be honest, we recognized that it may not be a quality experience academically this year and we will certainly be supplementing in English at home. But we are nonetheless hoping that A) getting out of the house and B) being immersed in Spanish daily will be worth it for our little "Silo Bilo!"

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