Posted on 03/01/2021 10:55:52 AM PST by SJackson
Many young people, frustrated by the inadequacies of remote learning during the pandemic, have likely just given up.
ith all that the public has learned about the many shortcomings of remote learning, no one should be surprised by the latest data showing just how severely Chicago schoolchildren are struggling during the pandemic.
The alarming news from the Chicago Public Schools, as reported on Thursday by Nader Issa of the Sun-Times, is that kids are failing classes more and attending school less, especially high school students.
Elementary students are receiving “F” grades at double the rate of last year. Black and Latino students are receiving significantly more “F” grades. High school attendance has declined by 4.3%, and elementary school attendance is down by 0.9%.
Editorials Add this to the growing mountain of evidence that reopening schools must be a priority, locally and nationally. The only question is how, not if.
If we fail to do so, the educational and economic impact could be enormous, as a new analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco warns. Thousands more students could drop out, the study concludes, and this would mean fewer high school graduates enrolling in college, and down the line, lower lifetime earnings and lower job productivity among the young people affected by closures today.
The closing of high schools during the pandemic is even being blamed for a surge in carjackings in Chicago and across the country. “With many schools closed for in-person education, school-aged youths with free time — some as young as 12-15 — are committing a large portion of the increase in carjackings,” the Police Executive Research Forum asserts.
Back to school — real school As it stands, we can understand why failing grades are up and attendance is down.
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Nothing a round of reparations won’t fix. Who needs English and math.
Only the dumb and/or unmotivated suffer in remote learning.
Smart kids excel at it.
And I contend the dumb/unmotivated don’t stand a chance anyway.
So when kids aren’t in school, they go do carjackings instead? What the heck?
So, since so much time has been missed, do kids advance to the next grade automatically? Domino effect eventually in proficiency I would think. 😯
Proof that for a certain percentage of the student body, high school is a prison surrogate, to the benefit of society in general and to the detriment of all who go to high school in order to teach and/or to learn.
It’s all part ofthe liberal plan. Stupid sheep are easier to lead to slaughter than smart sheep.
When young people sarted getting their news from entertainment shows (Jon Stewart. Bill Maher for example) the left knew they were on the right track.
Message is to never think for yourself, just parrot. ( Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter)
Now they are making sure that their future constituency can neither think or read.
Failing grades and low attendance seems to be just what the Doctor ordered for the current regime and the MSM and Hollywood and all of them. The rich lefties’ kids are being educated. The rest of the kids don’t need to learn how to read and right and cipher. They can live on welfare all their lives or goo to work for Soros in fun jobs where they get to break and burn stuff and occasionally kill people.
When are people going to wake up and realize that school closures are designed to stunt the intellec of our youngest and most vulnerable children?
’ Black and Latino students are receiving significantly more F grades.’
Why is that? Is Whitey being blamed for those failures too?
Why not just fail Whitey so there can be “equality”?
You can bet they are padding these attendance numbers. I would expect 10% drop out or more rather than just 4.3%
Remote learning works you and me, because we’re adults and motivated to a specific goal with a course objective.
But for an ninth grader trying to absorb four or more courses and build a knowledge base, it’s very different. Their attention span just isn’t there unless there’s an adult present to keep order and the class focused. Plus, the competition angle, trying to do better than your peers, is diminished. They’re just another box on the screen now.
Yes, smart and dedicated students and do this and even excel. But that isn’t even close to a majority.
The CTU is a criminal organization.
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One only has to look at the headlines on this site to see where the state of Illinois is heading. https://illinoisfamily.org/
I’m just surprised they still give out “F’s”.
Two years ago you could easily go to jail for keeping a child out of school for a few days. And more than a few days? — child would flunk the year.
“Only the dumb and/or unmotivated suffer in remote learning. Smart kids excel at it.”
Not always. And “unmotivated” is not the same as “dumb.” A student can be motivated but dumb, or unmotivated but smart.
Remote learning is soul-crushing for many: rich or poor, smart or dumb, unmotivated or motivated.
I define “remote learning,” generally speaking, as about half live synchronous teaching and half asynchronous (worksheets and Khan Academy or YouTube videos), with most of the students’ cameras off and lots of unsupervised “breakout sessions”, as is the case in much of CA. It’s not the same as something like National University Virtual High School, designed to be a good remote program.
It’s also very, very easy to cheat with remote learning. Now that some schools are going back hybrid (2 days a week in person), teachers are finding students aren’t doing as well without their cheat sheets on the wall, Siri, calculators nearby, Google translate, etc.
Kindergartners can’t even find their books—if they were in person in a classroom, their teacher could help them locate it.
It’s tragic what’s going on; teen suicide and depression and loneliness are horrible.
“Remote learning is soul-crushing for many:”
Hyperbolic, at best.
Remote learning is not necessarily isolation.
There are still kids in the neighborhood. And lots of opportunity for mixing.
Force them out the door.
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