Re drop 4131:
Alexa says we’ll go back to our lives in a month.
But our school district has told employees that it will likely open schools for TWO HALF-DAYS A WEEK next year. Students will take their state provided lunches home with them. They say no one will lose their jobs.
I see this as a huge money grab by districts. They are saving a HUGE AMOUNT of operating costs by closing everything down three days a week.
Who will supervise teens at home in the afternoons and three full days a week? The devil’s playground.
As usual, it is the children, who have no voice, who pay the price. They are entitled to a real education...not a virtual education!
I feel sick about it.
But our school district has told employees that it will likely open schools for TWO HALF-DAYS A WEEK next year. Students will take their state provided lunches home with them. They say no one will lose their jobs.
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I wonder if the schools are posing that scenario to get the public to BEG for public schools? Those 3 days closed don’t seem to make sense in my opinion. Public schools have been heavily criticized and the public has been talking about homeschooling etc. - so maybe this “oh, we’ll probably close 3 days a week” is to get working parents to become active pressing for full opening? Or, they just be cray cray. I guess that last one is equally possible. :/
Given the quality of product that constitutes "real" education these days, perhaps "virtual" might be beneficial. At least to some.
Sadly, regardless of the process in the future, the taxpayer will be financially raped to pay for it, even if they have no kids.
“our school district has told employees that it will likely open schools for TWO HALF-DAYS A WEEK next year. Students will take their state provided lunches home with them. They say no one will lose their jobs.”
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I have heard similar scuttlebutt here but no definitive information. However, I do think that public education as we experienced it will change. Whether that change will be better or even good remains to be determined.
This past February, with a bittersweet adieu, I submitted my retirement notice, effective June 1. I am grateful to our God that I heeded His guidance despite my initial misgivings and second-doubts.
I agree that the burden will be on our students, albeit our children. I think that virtual learning may have a place. However, based on my experience these past two months, I cannot - yet - fathom how learning will occur in the absence of school, classes, one-on-one interaction and engagement.