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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		These Two Local Families Chose Remote School Last Year. Their End Game was Far Different.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:02
	Publish Date:		2021-07-01 13:22:38
	Description:		Last October, the end of the school year seemed a long way off for Rhinelander mother Leanne Vigue Miranda. “I live day by day because, otherwise, that prospect of, oh my gosh, I have to continue this for eight more months is super scary,” she told WXPR back then . Miranda is the registrar at Nicolet College. She decided it would be safest to keep her kids, fourth-grader Phoebe and kindergartener Luna, in remote learning this past year because of pandemic concerns. We talked to her again after the school year ended. We wanted to check in with the parents we interviewed in the fall. How did a year of remote work and remote learning go? Miranda said juggling her work at home with the kids’ at-home education caused high-level stress, all the way to the last day of school. “That has definitely been reduced since the girls finished their schooling. I feel a lot less stressed,” she said. “When it finally all ended, it was a big celebration day.” Phoebe and Luna spent hundreds of hours in
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