Posted on 06/07/2020 2:50:29 PM PDT by John W
This spring, America took an involuntary crash course in remote learning. With the school year now winding down, the grade from students, teachers, parents and administrators is already in: It was a failure.
School districts closed campuses in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic and, with practically no time at all for planning or training, launched a grand experiment to educate more than 50 million students from kindergarten through 12th grade using technology.
The problems began piling up almost immediately. There were students with no computers or internet access. Teachers had no experience with remote learning. And many parents weren’t available to help.
In many places, lots of students simply didn’t show up online, and administrators had no good way to find out why not. Soon many districts weren’t requiring students to do any work at all, increasing the risk that millions of students would have big gaps in their learning.
“We all know there’s no substitute for learning in a school setting, and many students are struggling and falling far behind where they should be,” said Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, in a video briefing to the community on Wednesday.
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Trying to cut the surge in homeschoolong requests off at the pass?
Of course it didn’t work - it didn’t allow the public “education” system to inculcate our children with Marxist propaganda, so of COURSE they’re going to report that we can never, ever do such a horrid thing again.
Remote learning works but you just cant slap it together overnight like what was just done.
Haha, I DO NOT CARE if you hate that cliche. It is, or was, a free country.
Exactly what I was thinking!
You know what? I am not even going to give this article the pleasure of being read. it is 100% idiotic for the title to even suggest distance learning didn’t work when few of the new people who went into it the way they did were prepared for from the schools to the individuals who had to learn. The premise in the title alone shows a lack understanding that huge unavoidable underlying starting point for it all.
Kids don’t learn crap the last 3 months of school at public schools.
Wtat doesn’t work is our system of government funded public schools.
We need to get the government completely out of the education business from nursery schools to advanced college educations.
If the government must fund education, it has to be done with vouchers.
Some folks just don’t get inane movie references.
They went from
Reading, Writing and Math
To
Shoot,Loot and Scoot!
Actually, my take is it was a huge success and the brick and mortar schools supporters and teacher unions are very worried right now because it was so successful...considering all the challenges.
Personal observations from our personal experience:
* reading intensive courses do better online than anything else, assuming your child can already read well
* math and science education online gets an F
And no, Khan Academy is not an adequate replacement.
* online music lessons are half as good as in person
* online language lessons are about as good as in person, but mostly if you’re doing vocabulary
I’ll be the first to tell you that closing the schools for a fake pandemic was monumentally stupid but anyone who had trouble on either end of the process of doing it remotely probably was failing before the pandemic.
“There were students with no computers or internet access. Teachers had no experience with remote learning. And many parents weren’t available to help. “
Well duh.
“Somebody go back
and get some Dimes!”
.
Could not come
Up with a SEINFELD!
I beg to differ.
Crap is all they learn all year long.
Didn’t work without planning doesn’t mean unworkable.
Touche’
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