Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Just as I predicted. (But, then, what intelligent person couldn't have predicted this?) From the link below,
QUOTE (my italics):
"Compared with white and Asian students, students who are Black, Hispanic, Native American or Alaska Native have struggled more academically over the school year, falling more behind pre-pandemic expectations, signaling the pandemic has exacerbated longstanding achievement gaps. Students with disabilities and English language learners have also fallen further behind.
"It is going to take more than one school year to make up for these setbacks,"
It was a perfect opportunity for libertarian, conservative and independent thinking parents to retool education and get little billy out of the present progressive system that is training him to hate them and their values.
Instead I saw them lobbying for them to reopen ASAP.
Remote schooling was tough. Opened my eyes to just how poorly paid teachers are in FL.
We had to drill our kids into completing their remote work before they could do anything else, and it was tough. You would imagine a lot of households, particularly those of a single parent who still had to work, didn't have that same discipline.
I remember I read a news about two university professors who lost their jobs due to commenting on the academic performance of certain group of students saying they are at the bottom or something alike in email.
So can this newspaper say something similar?
I support the shutdown of schools or the hybrid version we are doing now because some children have medical conditions.
parents can do some extra jobs to support their children. After all, they are their children not the school's children.
Reading together with kids and doing work sheets together will help a lot.
Sending children to school does not mean parents need to do nothing. For the parents who have to go out to work schools should take the kids in. The school can do weekly test for children as well.
All my concerns about remote learning are not the academic parts but the social interactions and the potential harm to eyesight due to long time screen using.
The good point of home schooling is you can observe what the teachers do and get to know what your little one's school schedule look like. By doing so you know how the teachers teach and can learn from them.
I am sitting next to my son and he is in his classroom reading something about autism now. I am listening to his teacher as well and now I opened amazon to order some other books on the same topic to be on the same page with the teacher.
I learned how to explain some math questions in the way they understand when I do work sheets with my son.
Also I learn what kind of set of values the teachers are focusing on and are trying to pass on to children on social study class and I may explain them further in daily life.
However, for parents both working at home with several children remote learning I do agree there is huge challenge.
Remote schooling was tough. Opened my eyes to just how poorly paid teachers are in FL.
We had to drill our kids into completing their remote work before they could do anything else, and it was tough. You would imagine a lot of households, particularly those of a single parent who still had to work, didn't have that same discipline.
Now instead of just your own kids take on 25 more and try to get all of them to do a worksheet.
Some will quietly do the entire worksheet and then sit with nothing more to do.
Others have no intention of doing the worksheet and will do anything and everything to deflect, distract not only for themselves but for as many other students as well.
There were days I was thankful the troublemakers were spending the day in ISS and weren't in class.
And of course...if they fail it's your fault. Not the kid, not their parents, but YOU the teacher.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
