Posted on 04/15/2020 5:32:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many students across the world have been receiving an education online in recent weeks for the very first time. They are gaining new experiences with their families, along with new experiences with their neighborhood peers, and hopefully reading books to further their own independent education. Many students have always done this, and many more are now discovering it for the very first time. But when students return to their brick-and-mortar schools which they previously attended, student-to-teacher conflict will inevitably rise.
Upon return, students may see many of their teachers as lazy or unprofessional, now that many students personally and individually know that factual content is widely available on the internet and said information may not be widely shared, nor allowed within brick-and-mortar school settings. The restrictions that are placed on students within school settings may continue to hinder their learning, and without pushback, students will fall back into the same trap where they existed before. The games and gimmicks that previously existed within many school-based settings may now be seen as the waste of time they truly are, and student participation in such events may dramatically drop, much to the dismay of many educators and administrators themselves. However, this awakening among the student population may create a chain-breaking event that will undoubtedly create public and verbalized conflict within such school-based settings.
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The real conflict will be how many parents won’t send their kids back.
Then there is the incredible rumor mill. How many schools will empty the first time word gets around that so and so is sick.
My former neighbor’s grandchildren rebelled against online education after a week.
Granny resents having been forced to become a demanding taskmaster in Margaret Hamilton style.
I have 3x kids at home now homeschooling. The youngest (11) doesn’t like it. She’s very social and misses her friends. The middle one loves it. She’s and introvert and shy, hates social drama (and she’s in 8th grade) and homeschooling fit’s her to a T. And she’s really applying herself above and beyond the expectations. The oldest is 18 and he could care less. He’s rather be working on his car anyway.
I think after this the middle one will continue homeschooling. She excels at it and she’s come out of her shell.
LOL, Before going into acting she was a school teacher. I had the unfortunate experience to find my 1st grade teacher to be the spitting image of Margaret Hamilton.
Hopefully, a few of them will discover that they can learn on their own — and that the educational establishment is replaceable. No more Marxist or pro-trans indoctrination outside of the textbooks. And they can even set up anonymous grading to avoid discrimination against conservative students. While the student is taking a break, he can finish cleaning his hunting rifle.
I will never forget when I realized as a high school freshman that my math teacher had no clue what she was talking about.
I had a buddy that went to college. After two weeks the teacher had him teaching the math class. At Christmas time he dropped out of college. “What’s the point if I already know more than the professors?”
30 years later he has a BS degree. “Yeah - so I wrote the curriculum for a course at the college. They asked how much it would cost. I told them - give me a BS degree and it won’t cost you anything. Everyone else thought I was nuts - but I know how they work. Although I am actually taking some courses now to get my MS degree. I’m guessing my PhD will be an honorary degree though. I’m getting to old for this college s—t.”
The kids are off for three months every summer. If they don’t figure out then that they can learn from the internet, I wouldn’t get my hopes up that this is going to be much of a game changer. Moreover, most parents want the free babysitting.
Is there any evidence that grounded students are voluntarily reading books as opposed to spending more time with social media and video games?
What the writer is describing is little different from summer vacation—from which students on average famously return months behind where they had left off at the end of the school year. What most students will have had this year is essentially a double summer vacation.
Yep! I agree.
Ah, sorry—I see you already made my point of the summer vacay comparison.
This writer must be in the optimists hall of fame.
I think most at home students are doing what students have always done. As little as possible to get by.
Lots of faculty get bogged down with adm requirements. I don’t know if it’s ‘make work’ to disguise how little they actually do, or if it’s because adm budgets have been cut so faculty are doing stuff they didn’t do previously.
Many faculty have grad assistants and teaching assistants... so much of their work is handed off to them. It’s true students may see “teachers as lazy or unprofessional...”
Several of my coworkers kids are sitting down and getting their school work done as quickly as possible, many of them spending 2-3 hours on assignments. The kids figured out quickly that so long as they entertain themselves, the rest of the day is theirs.
There will be a lot of kids frustrated that they are in school for 6-7 hours, knowing the work can be accomplished in a much shorter period of time.
Wow. That is nuts.
I’m a high school English teacher and this whole thing has been an exercise in stupidity. I have been uploading reading assignments for the kids to do, but only about 60% are doing them. Now we’re being told that we won’t be allowed to fail any of them. I have had it. It all seems so futile now. I’m going to finish the school year and retire. I’m done.
I have a junior in high school. Everything he has been building up to is up in the Air. SAT, AP tests, college resumes ect. It may be next fall by the time he gets that all caught up.
The good thing is everybody is in the same boat.
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