Smaller Classes, Flexible Schedules, Remote Meetings: Some NYC Families Hope for a New ‘Normal’ Next School Year

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Trisky

Homeshooling is different than remote learning though. It's taught oftentimes by unqualified parents and exists in a bubble where you don't hear other kids answers or process information they may provide and remote is taught be actual educators.

They should hire full time remote staff for children who might benefit from learning that way for a variety of reasons.

Do you have kids in public school that are remote learning? What is your whole basis on the above post? Personal experience, or hearsay?

[Aeran]

Originally Posted by Trisky

Homeshooling is different than remote learning though. It's taught oftentimes by unqualified parents and exists in a bubble where you don't hear other kids answers or process information they may provide and remote is taught be actual educators.

They should hire full time remote staff for children who might benefit from learning that way for a variety of reasons.

That's a good point. They do receive some kind of social interaction online. Where as in home schooling, it can be more isolating unless there's a group of you doing home schooling together. I know friends of mine who have home schooled their kids but they were part of a much larger church organization where all the kids involved interacted with each other.

[Adhom]

As a parent, I have no issue with schools returning back to full in person in the Fall.

I suggest the following policy. If any student tests positive for Covid, that student should be prevented from going back to school until all adults he/she lives with gets vaccinated.

[Aeran]

Parents react with relief and outrage after NYC ditches remote instruction next fall.
Well...you can't please everybody.

https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/2...ng-nyc-schools

Relief. Anxiety. Joy. Outrage.

Parents, students, and educators reacted with mixed emotions after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City’s district schools will not offer a remote learning option to families this September, resolving a major sticking point in the city’s planning for the fall.

The news came as a shock to many families, as more than 60% of them — or roughly 600,000 students — have opted for fully remote learning this year and the mayor suggested in March that the city would likely have a virtual option.

“I was very surprised to hear there wouldn’t be a full remote option for anybody who really felt like they needed it,” said Jessica Dowshen, a Brooklyn mom of a third grader who attends school in person and a sixth grader who has been remote all year, in part due to a long subway commute to school.

Still, Dowshen is thrilled her children will receive five days a week of in-person instruction and that her sixth-grade son will be able to socialize after more than a year of isolation and Zoom classes full of faceless boxes. “The general consensus from the group of parents I speak with is one of relief and happiness.”

[Trisky]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Do you have kids in public school that are remote learning? What is your whole basis on the above post? Personal experience, or hearsay?

No I don't have children, just experience with friends with kids who thrived with remote learning because one was being bullied in school and the other just learns better remotely without the distractions of classrooms.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Trisky

No I don't have children, just experience with friends with kids who thrived with remote learning because one was being bullied in school and the other just learns better remotely without the distractions of classrooms.

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