After the pandemic

[chiociolliscalves]

Originally Posted by MisterRice

As it is in other countries, education is a privilege, and not an over-abused right. The riff raff are kicked out and told to stay out so the kids interested in being educated can do so.

No, instead, everyone has the “right to a free education” and thus, the garbage can of an education system we have now.

To illustrate the insanity endemic in our public school system, the pressure not to suspend and expell such students is justified by, get this, the data that suggests that these measures do not improve learning for the suspended or expelled students. Isn't that brilliant? As of yet, no studies I have seen on how suspending and expelling the criminals in our hallways might improve learning outcomes for the rest of the kids.

In another thread, someone justified something in our public school system by claiming it's "an accepted practice." As someone on the inside, I'm prepared to say that anything that is commonly accepted in our system is, on its face, reason to oppose it, given the dreadful results we get from all these "accepted practices."

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by tnff

I saw an article the other day, unfortunately don't remember where, that said exactly that. Many of this year's entering class will wait a year rather than take on line courses. Guess they got a bad taste from the last couple months of school.

Great idea... go get a J-O-B in their field before wasting time and $$ on a useless degree from an outdated edu system. Maybe, just maybe... many will 'find-themselves' BEFORE heading to college

Doing some grunt slave labor for a few yrs is also a much better and cheaper way to 'find-yourself' than expecting a college to sort it out for you.

[CA4Now]

No one seems motivated at the moment. No one is enjoying the learning process. No one finds this new paradigm of isolated learning — Zoom meetings without end, YouTube videos and gazing at pixilated screens all day — to be a powerful catalyst for academic growth.

But the future is what really worries me.

In the coming era of cataclysmic budget cuts to education, this educational experiment under crisis conditions could be exploited to pioneer a new era of instruction, one in which the presence and power of traditional classroom teaching is permanently swapped in favor of distance or hybrid instruction requiring far fewer teachers

The temptation for those in charge of education budgets could be strong. After all, school facilities are expensive to build and maintain. Teachers are expensive to employ. Education policymakers may already be thinking, “Zoom meetings can host dozens and hundreds of people at the same time. Why do we need so many teachers?”

Moving away from a traditional classroom setting in which a living, breathing human being teaches and interacts with students on a daily basis would be a colossal and catastrophic mistake.

Op-Ed: Distance learning? Even my students will tell you that’s not the future:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...ng-coronavirus