Posted on 07/15/2020 3:15:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Rachel Greszler and her husband have managed a chaotic household with six children since mid-March when they ended up with everyone at home full-time, while still trying to juggle their jobs.
“My concern is … inevitably our children aren’t going to be on the same schedule. And so it’s going to be trying to manage five different schedules, and who’s going to school on which day, and when do you have to be online?” Greszler said.
“My personal opinion is that, if you look at the science behind this, children are less affected by COVID-19 than even the seasonal flu, and they don’t really seem to pass it on very much to older adults. And so I understand the concern of teachers who would be there, but I do think there are ways to safely mitigate the risks.”
Paru Rellan said her 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter will be opting for the online-only version of Montgomery County public schooling for the year. They’re entering the 4th and 6th grades, respectively.
Rellan said she’s opting for distance learning because she’s concerned about any potential long-term effects that COVID-19 may inflict if her kids get it.
The family has been home together since March 13, initially for a two-week period that has grown to four months and counting.
Davis and her husband are seriously considering a move to Nebraska for the year if their school in Virginia doesn’t open up for full, in-person lessons, five days a week. She won’t know for another week or so what the private, Lutheran school will do, but the public schools in Arlington County are only offering online classes.
So, the Davis’s are actively looking at Plan B in Nebraska with fully open schools. The family is currently in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Davis’s mother’s house.
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All of LA, San Diego—really millions of students—have announced they are NOT firing back up.
You are right, but the teachers’ unions are stronger than even the dual income family and feminism.
Hysteria. Why can’t we be like the Swedes?
There are going to be a lot of angry parents if they can’t ship their kids off to school in the fall. The kids and parents are all in an age group where fatalities are almost non-existent. People have to go to work, school is day care for their kids.
I remember that it was almost two decades ago that the technowizards declared that they would make computers that were dirt cheap to solve that very problem. What happened with that?
So parents can now choose whether their child gets a virus from another student or from a Spam email sent by a Nigerian prince.
One of the Karen’s in our area posted on Nextdoor that she’s looking for homeschooling groups....with the Covid mayhem going around, and our schools still in limbo on what they’ll do.
She posted that she has two kids and that she just isn’t up to teaching them, herself. Oh, and that any online/gov’t programs would be a possibility, too.
Several people listed area homeschool groups and other helpful info.
She replied back that she isn’t ‘good at reaching out to homeschool groups’ and that the district’s online program was overwhelming.
In other words.....she wants someone else to do all of her legwork, to find programs, to keep her kids busy/doing work.
My point is schools won’t hand them outside classroom and risk not getting them back. So how can these kids learn remotely?
Computers and TVs have dropped in price.
And her kids are from the same gene pool
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I know of one local Catholic school who did this already, through the teachers were at home. They could be in their classrooms in September.
We shall see.
-In other words.....she wants someone else to do all of her legwork, to find programs, to keep her kids busy/doing work.- You & she are paying big tax money for someone else to take care of that. Those that are paid to do that are refusing to do their job.
“... many minority kids don’t have computers...”
In MoCo, every child that needed a laptop got a Chrome book to use for school. There was some sort of waiver for those that needed internet as well.
Again. The teacher told me kids assigned computers. The district would not allow them to take them home during covid. They stay in the classroom cause they wont see them again. My point is hiw do you learn remotely with packets.
1 million NYC public school kids.
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