WESLEY CHAPEL Sending three children back to school is a lot of work in any circumstance. But the coronavirus heaped even more concerns on Amanda Marler and her family this fall.
Her daughter was navigating the hustle-bustle of high school. Her sons were in elementary school, each with his own learning style.
To her relief, Marler found a new charter school for the younger two. Enrolling them at Pinecrest Academy in Wesley Chapel, she concluded, would make pandemic life easier and more predictable than sending them to their regular public school, Watergrass Elementary.
“We understood that charter schools didn’t have to follow the public schools’ calendar, or its rules and regulations, and we had heard public schools may not even open,” said Marler, who works in landscaping. At Pinecrest, the boys would be able to move from remote to in-person instruction without waiting nine weeks, as some public schools were requiring.