Posted on 08/09/2020 1:23:45 PM PDT by Twotone
As I write this — one month before the traditional start of the school year — a particular coronavirus-related debate burns hotter with each passing day: Should schools reopen this September or not?
I don't have a kid in this fight, and don't envy those who do. My opinions are merely those of an outsider, although that status has never stopped me from expressing myself before.
While I don't have children, I was a child once. I loved the idea of school, but the real thing was marred by the presence of way too many other children, most of whom were loud, restless, unimaginative, rude, and uninterested in or incapable of learning.
One of the pivotal moments of my life was being taken by my estranged father to see Woody Allen's Annie Hall on my 13th birthday, which he had uncharacteristically remembered. Today — perhaps having inherited this mental quirk from my dad — I can't recall the day or even the year I got married (although I do know the month began with a "J") but have no difficulty reliving the revelatory thrill of Not Being Alone In This World as this scene unspooled onto the screen.
The thoughtless lip service we pay to the high-minded, "progressive" concept of mass public education is not reflected in the broader popular culture, where the Truth (or something like it) frequently seeps out between the cracks of our unexamined platitudes.
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I don't agree with lumping the experience of children and adults together as you did in your post.
Adults should know better. Children have to learn how to know better.
Candace Owen just had an interesting interview with Matt Walsh today on this very subject which is both an interesting and a bit funny take on how kids learn to socialize in this age of the Internet (Matt Walsh has a podcast on the Daily Wire)
I understand your point of view, I just see the mechanics of it differently.
School was repetitive and boring.
I do respect your opinion on this, by the way, and I applaud parents who can figure out a way to get their kids out of the public school environment.
Not everyone can, or is capable of doing it. Kids are cruel. They are among the cruelest entities on the planet, and most of them learn what is and isn’t acceptable.
But I do fear there are fewer of those with every passing day.
Yep - it isn’t like a college seminar or business teleconference is a good learning environment - especially with school-age kids.
LOL! That was the only worthwhile course I took in high school......Helped get me my non combat Army MOS
Well, speaking for myself, I have always found online learning to be a crappy way to learn.
But it isn’t my generation, either. Maybe it is different for them.
However, I wonder about the scads of people getting their degrees online, and wonder if it like getting degree from those old matchbook ads.
That shows my age I guess.
My wife is envious of my typing ability, but boy...I sure did hate typing class.
Glad for it now, though. although at my age, I have found my typing skills beginning to regress and I spend yearly as much time typing backwards as I do forwards...my fingers don’t find the keys the same way anymore...:(
Same - took on class on-line once and it was a mess.
Most elementary/middle-school/high-school teachers are also not up on being even marginally effective with the distance learning technologies and cannot do a decent job with it...
For later.
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For all my typing ability, I still have to look at the top row of numbers in order to type them....same with the punctuation marks.....I only learned the letters.......LOL!
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