Posted on 03/29/2020 12:33:09 PM PDT by Libloather
As the coronavirus pandemic closes schools, in some cases until September, American children this month met their new English, math, science and homeroom teachers: their iPads and their parents. Classes are going online, if they exist at all. The United States is embarking on a massive, months-long virtual-pedagogy experiment, and it is not likely to end well. Years of research shows that online schooling is ineffective and that students suffer significant learning losses when they have a long break from school. Now theyre getting both, in a hastily arranged mess. And the kids who suffer most from the summer slide are the low-income students, the ones already struggling to keep up.
Schools and teachers are mobilizing to roll out instruction. Many are showing entrepreneurial spirit and creativity, and the ad hoc home-school universe is awash in ideas and resources. District leaders are working long hours, trying their best to serve kids. While larger districts have at times struggled with communication and rollout, some schools and districts are showing a more nimble and collaborative approach. Achievement First, a charter network with schools in multiple states including Rhode Island, has jumped in and offered to share all resources with the Providence Public School District, which is under a state takeover for low performance. And Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and local education leaders, is hosting a virtual forum for school districts to share how they are collaborating with charter schools during this crisis. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, those jurisdictions struggling to support online coursework will catch up and find workarounds for students without access to technology, learning from the more entrepreneurial players.
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I hope when the parents find out the kids get the lessons done in 3 hours that they’ll raise hell about why the school day is 7 hours long.
Agree 100%.
BS. What I’m hearing is some parents, whose kids are now home from public school, are now thinking they should be homeschooling their kids .... all the time.
A relative of mine has recently made the decision to home school her kids (now 4 & 1.5) and has been surprised how many other parents with similarly aged kids want to do the same. I think they’re up to a group of 8 parents with probably 12 or more kids.
Who sponsored these studies?
Some students started early. Neither teacher was surprised by which students did this. Other students were MIA despite attempts to contact. Parents were contacted if students had not reached out by Thursday. Some parents cracked down on the non-performing students. A few still have not submitted any assignments.
My wife has been teaching for over 20 years. She has seen a big decline in work ethic and readiness for STEM subjects. This will be a life-changing moment for these students. The ones who are resilient and self-starters will succeed. The ones who goof off will take up the mantle of "victim" and will not do well in a competitive environment.
There is an urban legend about a college teaching assistant stapling Taco Bell applications to the homework of slackers... That is called "tough love".
Its good for the kids to be at home with their ma and pa, and the birds and trees, instead of the communist propaganda that is shoved down their throats.
Instead of the system of collectivism and it’s dark despair, they can taste what its like to be children again, and play like their in heaven, outside, feel the wind, and be kids again.
Hmm. I did okay homeschooling ours. Til high school.
One is triple major with a 3.72, accepted into one of the top three grad schools in the world in the field. Tests superior in state dept standards for a foreign language all four aspects
Goes to church every week on campus.
Loves America.
Has a sense of humor.
Hmm.
The homosexualists must be in panic they will lose the children.
My wife homeschooled our oldest for a couple of years. It just wasn’t for her, but our kids didn’t lose anything by homeschooling. They graduated with honors in High School and Junior College.
Nobody is out buying their rag LOL!!
Another benefit is the halting of abortions in TX, LA, and MS.
Absolutely agreed!
I’m thinking many parents may have their eyes opened for the first time when they see what their kids are being “taught”.
Yep! Maybe... However we need to retroactively set back the last 3 generations of mind-numb robots that government propaganda asylums have produced...
All the asylums should be burned to the ground to decontaminate the ground and surrounding area...
Fire all NEA members... Jail the leaders...
Dismantle the federal Department of Child Propaganda...
Force parents to take their offspring back from the government and take responsibility for their education...
Then begin rebuilding the former highly-successful American public school system that was eliminated in the 1960's & 1970's...
They’ve got to correct their motto to: “Democracy dies under Democrats”.
As I was reading this I heard a fire engine as if it was parading through the neighborhood, then heard car horns. I asked my wife if she knew what was going on. She said it was a nation wide thing of teachers contacting their students.
Talk about trying to staying relavent!
The Onion sure has a lot of competition these days.
...from our Communist indoctrination.
Glad my kids are home!!!! Their minds can decompress from all the nonsense out yonder.
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