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Trashy followup to doing good

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Yesterday we came home to find a lot of garbage in our front yard. Today is trash and recycling day,

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Trash pickup
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Doing good in the neighborhood

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Took the kiddos out for some neighborhood service yesterday, and just to get a walk in. Getting the 7 &

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School from Pixabay
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Four classes of not learning due to tech issues

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

We’ve entered the phase of everything breaking in Nashville’s remote learning. Yesterday a teacher couldn’t share her screen which meant

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Unrelated goats are unrelated
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A month in: The trials of Nashville’s remote learning

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

I believe this is week four of Nashville in remote learning mode, maybe 37 for all I know at this

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Happy little virus
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Metro schools announce another 48 days of virtual schooling only until they announce another two months of virtual schooling only

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

People who are bad at math were anxiously awaiting yesterday to hear whether Nashville would resume in-person classes while the

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The More You Know
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Server ate my homework, or just how bad can my kids do and not fail?

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

The past three virtual school days have not been good. Friday we trekked to pick up the Florida Virtual School

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School from Pixabay
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Nashville schools nearing end of week 2 virtual learning

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

It’s Thursday. Today was day 7 of Metro Nashville’s entirely remote learning initiative and it’s been an interesting battle. The

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Dog with fabulous hair
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Week 2 day one of Nashville’s virtual schools – a review

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

I woke up yesterday sometime before the sun came up this morning and read a set of emails and tried

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myFirst Headphones BC Wireless review
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Day two of virtual school, better than before

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Today was much better, although really no school apps got used, it was mostly some MS Teams meetings. I did

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Nashville started virtual learning today, it did not go well

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

I’m going to preface this with a lot of it did go well, I’m one of the lucky ones that

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School from Pixabay
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Born 7 days after an arbitrary date, the 19th of 18 parts.

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

When last we left the tale of my youngest who was born 7 days after the arbitrary MNPS school cutoff

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Paul King
Paul King - 3 months ago
Parents who fled public virtual schools in Nashville for private finding out they’re now paying for virtuals schools
https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/mount-juliet-christian-academy-transitions-to-online-learning-after-2-teachers-test-positive-for-covid-19/
Paul King
Paul King - 5 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I'll check this out tonight unless it's chaos - I think in the new version of FireOS you have to go into the adult profile, share the app with the kid in order for it to even be seen. They added some...
BillinCT
BillinCT - 5 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I know this was 10 months ago, but things have changed. I succesffuly made this work 3 years ago using ES explorer. We got a replacement tablet and I did everything I had done before, but ES...
Roo the Hunter
Roo the Hunter - 2 years ago
The day my 4yo went full Jackass
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Paul King
Paul King - 2 years ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
as I recall you can download a file explorer from Amazon - ES File Explorer was what I used then, there're a few. I'll be back tonight and take a look, but I did it from the non-child profile,...

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