@mayofeb2020, Thank you for your response to our good report. The relief is enormous. While the school board for our younger grand has posted re-opening school guidelines and choices, the high school plan has yet to be published. Alternative plans for the 10 yr old have been established but the 15 yr old can't be added to a waiting list until office staff from his middle school return to duty and can forward his record. A good friend's daughter, so excited to be starting her 1st yr of public teaching after getting her third son through high school, has reported for training in the Dallas area but still hasn't been told how her ele. school will provide instruction. They are slated to start on the 17th.

@ginger, The school issue facing all across the nation and world is another reason that I am selfishly thankful to be the age I am. Both as a parent and former educator, I have been concerned for months about the school situation and can't begin to imagine the strain the uncertainties must be adding to all most directly affected.

I shared with a close friend, younger and in better health than me, that I feel so out of step with all I know here. She is following precautionary guidelines and while continuing to be out, takes care to observe distancing and leaves an area if she observes others who aren't. Her words truly comforted me when she said, "if I were dealing with the health issues that make you so much more susceptible, I would be doing much more of what you are doing". Like sharing here, her words were balm to my troubled ears.