Posted on 03/18/2021 2:21:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
“There’s no such thing as learning loss,” writes Rachael Gabriel, an education professor, in Valerie Strauss’s Washington Post column. “Corona kids” are learning valuable things while out of school, she argues. There’s no need for them to “catch up.”
Learning is never lost, though it may not always be “found” on pre-written tests of pre-specified knowledge or preexisting measures of pre-coronavirus notions of achievement.
Gabriel sees schools as “an access point for things like books, daytime supervision of children, nutrition, therapeutic services, and sometimes health care,” but argues it’s “a myth that families must rely on school for learning to occur.”
If this nation is going to spend billions of dollars on public schooling, surely we want more than day-care centers with breakfast, lunch, snacks and copies of Anti-Racist Baby.
And, if children can learn just as well without school, let’s give those billions to parents or back to the taxpayers. “No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks! School’s out forever.”
(Excerpt) Read more at joannejacobs.com ...
They’re necessary for the teachers unions.
“Gabriel sees schools as “an access point for things like books, daytime supervision of children, nutrition, therapeutic services, and sometimes health care”
For those who may not know, ‘health care’ in education lingo is abortions and contraceptives, and without letting the parents know.
But what the heck, public schools are ‘free’!?
We noticed that 25 years ago, thanks. Come on over to the dark side, folks. We have safe bathrooms!
Or, they can take the attitude that their kids don't need to know that a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
Hell, some of them think that knowing that 2+2=4 is racist.
And you won't get any as long as the teachers' unions are able to run amok. The only thing you might get is INDOCTRINATION.
Triangles are cool.
Actually Geometry was really fun. My teacher made the mistake of telling us at the beginning of the year that we could drop our lowest test score, or our homework score.
a small group of math nerds including myself did no homework that year while still getting an A on the tests.
I know I could never ever present the subject as well that teacher.
By this logic there is no need for schools at all. Just need cafeterias and nurses and free wifi. Any shopping mall will do.
I swear, folks in this country are doing their utter damn best to turn America into a modern updated version of Idiocracy........!
Don’t believe me, search ‘Idiocracy was prophetic’ using any search engine. LMAO.
I think you are correct. Students? Who gives a damn about them? And they don't vote.
Think of the money we can save!
Schools are as necessary as horses and buggies.
if “teachers” can’t figure out which bathroom to use, or whether Johnie or Susie should “share pronouns or not...” school’s pretty much a waste of time & child abuse
Anybody that thinks this has been good for kids that they have substituted alternative education is a stark raving lunatic. This has been a disaster for kids and a wild success for teachers who got paid to not work and in many cases are now getting union goals of 4-day school weeks as they return to school I say give them 4/5 of their salary and if they don’t return to school, lay them off or even fire them. They serve parents and our kids, not their own self-enrichment.
“Learning is never lost...”
Did Rachel never take a summer vacation in school?
She is right but was referring to kids basically before 80’s.
My folks were always dragging us out of school for various car trips across the US. We learned more about various states and US history and geography then we would have in school.
If you asked this broad her position on homeschooling, my guess is she'd be singing a very different tune.
“...“There’s no such thing as learning loss,” ...”
That explains why she was an educaion major !
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