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No way to tell if responders were active teachers, or not.
There are more than 13,000 public school districts in the US.
Most parents do not have the time or inclination or skills to home school or monitor their children’s online learning. District and teacher engagement in online learning is a huge variable.
Not lost on many people the number of teachers who created/ posted Tik- Tok content during the school day, as schools were closed. Most of the content seems to be variations of a shuffle dance.
No way to tell if responders were active teachers, or not.
There are more than 13,000 public school districts in the US.
Most parents do not have the time or inclination or skills to home school or monitor their children’s online learning. District and teacher engagement in online learning is a huge variable.
Not lost on many people the number of teachers who created/ posted Tik- Tok content during the school day, as schools were closed. Most of the content seems to be variations of a shuffle dance.
Many parents do not have their former jobs. They're either unemployed or working from home. That's a game changer.
Many parents do not have their former jobs. They're either unemployed or working from home. That's a game changer.
There was no game changer.
With both parents at home, there was ZERO learning taking place.
As parents reported, their children got up from the computer and started roaming around the house, out in the garage, down in the basement, outside, everywhere but at the computer.
The children were easily distracted by anything and everything.
Two birds in a tree distracted the children. Noises distracted the children. The TV shows the parents were watching distracted the children. The parents' phone conversations distracted the children. The parents talking to each other distracted the children. The parents going about their daily routines in the home distracted the children. A parent walking from one room to another distracted the children.
If you think a parent is going to sit next to their child for 7 hours to keep them on task, you're dreaming.
I'm fine with continuing to do online schooling at home with my son, but the socialization factor is the biggest missing piece so far.
The socialization factor is the most critical.
Children and teens need social interaction. On a personal level. Talking, texting and sexting is not social interaction.
It's important to learn both verbal and non-verbal cues, and you can't learn non-verbal cues online or talking, texting and sexting.
The in-school and after-school athletic and non-athletic extra-curricular activities are an important part of the socialization factor. That's how leadership, self-confidence, self-esteem and such are built, not to mention being exposed to a wide variety of experiences.
I’m fine teaching my kids at home if I have to. I have a law degree. I think I can handle it.
Perhaps ... Do you have the curriculum? Won't you have to go to work? How will you teach them if you're not home?
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I'd hate to see a kid's potential not be realized because the home schooler can't meet their needs which is going to be especially challenging for stem and since some groups are unrepresented as it is, that's sure not going to help things.
How do you conduct a complex science experiment at home? It's not like every kitchen is equipped with grasshopper carcasses to dissect, specific chemicals to mix, and microscopes to look at cells.
Some kids don't even have computers at home, or reliable internet access. One of the school districts in my county lost six weeks of teaching because more than half the kids don't have computers at home. And if you have multiple kids who are sharing a computer - how do they access their lessons at the same time?
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Not lost on many people the number of teachers who created/ posted Tik- Tok content during the school day, as schools were closed. Most of the content seems to be variations of a shuffle dance.
Lovely!
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With both parents at home, there was ZERO learning taking place.
As parents reported, their children got up from the computer and started roaming around the house, out in the garage, down in the basement, outside, everywhere but at the computer.
And that's if the children checked in at all; in some districts, 15-25 percent of the kids have not. Here's a story about attendance (it's from late April, so things might have improved in May): https://www.inquirer.com/education/c...-20200427.html
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If you think a parent is going to sit next to their child for 7 hours to keep them on task, you're dreaming.
Parents will be going back to work. They won't even be home to redirect their kids when they get distracted.
I can see that happening w/ other professions as well. And, a fair amount of people will be retiring earlier than they originally planned I'm guessing, too.
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