Eclipse and Schools???

[plutosmoon]

Our school sent an email telling us to not let the eclipse disrupt our children's schedules. Select grades will be given glasses and an eclipse based science lesson. So, we are business as usual here, we are about 96%. DD said her class will be doing an eclipse lesson, but peak is after school lets out. She does a science based after school program on Mondays, so they may do something during peak.

I was tempted to pull her so we could watch, but she was sick almost all of last week and missed 3 days, so I sent her as usual today.

[pinkdutchtulips]

Mine could care less about it. 

We're also outside the zone of totality so there won't be much to see. Our district isn't doing anything special. 

[waverly]

Our school is giving them glasses and taking them outside.

[rhian]

Schools in my area are on spring break this week, so it was a planned day of no school. Spring break is typically around this time, so I'm not sure if they intentionally planned it for this week or it just worked out that way. We're at about 92%.

[imimahoney]

Were 93% totality yesterday. At my high school it started during the students FLEX block so many kids signed up to view it with the science teachers.

Other kids just hung out with teachers who had a view and had glasses to share.

My elementary and middle school children did nothing school related to view it.

[nicolewi]

So in the end....it was actually at 2:10ish here, which worked better.
--the little girls saw it at school and did lessons about the eclipse
--DS at middle school just stayed in and looked out windows and I think a lot of kids were trying to look at the sun!! Yikes. Picked him up after school and he took a quick look with the glasses towards end of eclipse.
--picked up DD b/c she REALLY wanted to see it and we went to Grandma's house near the school and watched in the driveway with DH and it was pretty fun, even though it wasn't all that dramatic here at 90%. I expected it to get darker than it did! Just seemed a tiny bit dim.
Sounds like the schools just weren't on top of it to make a plan and were worried about liability and waited too long to send permission forms. Kind of a hassle for us to figure things out but it all turned out fine.

[CloudBee]

We homeschool, but our neighborhood bus rolled through at the usual time, which was just after peek. I saw someone post in a local FB group for our district that they had attempted to send glasses in for their child's class, and were told it was against policy. I'm sure it was a liability, but what a bummer.

ETA: We had a bunch of friends over and hosted a party with sun/space themed snacks. It was lots of fun.