Routines

A routine is the set of things that simply have to happen — brush teeth, pack the PE kit. Each child has a morning and an evening list, and a separate list per weekday, because Monday morning is not Friday morning.

Deliberately not a reward system. Routines are the things that have to happen whether or not anybody notices, and Schoolday does not score them: no points, no stars, nothing to earn by brushing your teeth.

It does keep a record of what got done, and that is a different thing. It is not on the wall for the children — it is for whoever has to work out whether the evening routine is working, or whether it is the same two steps failing every week.

Morning and evening for the whole family. “Sportbeutel” carries the subject that put it there.

Days that are not school days

A holiday morning is not a school morning with items crossed out — it is its own short list. So the two kinds of day off get their own fields rather than a rule about which steps to skip:

• Day off — the list for a holiday
• Holiday care — the list for a holiday spent in care, which needs the lunchbox but not the school bag

Leave Holiday care empty and care days fall back to the Day off list. Leave both empty and holidays have no routine at all.

A child at home ill keeps their place on the board, with the reason instead of a list

A child at home ill has no list, and deliberately no fallback either: a holiday list offers swimming things to a child in bed.

What each subject needs

This is the one place the timetable and the routines know about each other.

“Pack the PE kit” typed into Monday evening states the same fact as Tuesday’s timetable — that there is PE on Tuesday. The copy is the one nobody updates when the timetable changes, and a forgotten kit is not a subtle failure. So it is stated once, per subject:

Sport      →  Sportbeutel, Turnschuhe
Schwimmen  →  Badesachen, Handtuch

Those appear in the evening routine on the day before that subject, for whoever has it, and tick off exactly like any other step. A tomorrow that is a holiday, a care day or a sick day asks for nothing — which is why Friday evening is quiet and Sunday evening is not, with no rule about weekends anywhere.

A step somebody typed by hand wins: if you already have “Sportbeutel” in the routine, the generated one is left out rather than shown twice. Delete the typed one to let the timetable take over.

Ticks reset overnight

Nothing has to run at midnight for that to be correct — a stored day that is not today reads as “nothing done yet”. The scheduled reset exists only so a wall panel visibly clears itself.

The record

Wiping the ticks every night is right for the board and throws away the only answer to the question a parent actually has. So each day is written down as it goes: what the board asked for, what got ticked, and what kind of day it was.

The last 30 days are kept, and nothing older — long enough that every weekday has four samples, short enough to stay a picture of how things are going rather than a permanent file on a child. It is drawn by the routine record card and published as routine_stats on each child’s sensor.

Three rules decide what counts, and all three are about what does not:

• A day that asked for nothing is not a day anybody failed. A weekend, a holiday with no list, a day at home ill — none of them count against the rate, and none of them break a run of complete days.
• Today counts only once it is finished. An evening routine is 0 of 3 all morning. A rate that dips at breakfast and recovers at bedtime measures the clock, not the child.
• A step only counts while it is in the routine. Delete one and it stops being asked for; the days it was ticked on stay as they were.

{{ state_attr('sensor.schoolday_ben', 'routine_stats').rate }}          {# 95 — whole percent #}
{{ state_attr('sensor.schoolday_ben', 'routine_stats').streak }}        {# 3 complete days in a row #}
{{ state_attr('sensor.schoolday_ben', 'routine_stats').steps[0].step }} {# the step most often skipped #}

routine_stats also carries best_streak, a blocks entry per morning and evening, and days — one {date, mode, asked, done} per day, oldest first, today included so a card can draw the day in progress. A rate is null, never 0, where nothing was ever asked: a child who has not been asked to do anything has not failed to do it.

Services

Service	Purpose
schoolday.set_routine	Replace one member’s steps for one block on one day.
schoolday.set_routine_step	Tick a step off, or put it back. Takes a member name or id.
schoolday.reset_routine	Clear today’s ticks, for one member or everyone.
schoolday.set_materials	Say what a subject needs brought along.