Posted on 08/14/2020 11:52:14 PM PDT by knighthawk
More than 90 per cent of students in California are going to start the new school year with online classes, Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday.
Newsom said the state had been planning how to best educate their 6.2 million students, and investing in technology as well as protective equipment.
Newsom on Friday issued an executive order demanding that all state agencies work for a minimum broadband speed goal of 100 megabits per second, download speed.
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Navin Gruesom PSYCHOPATH in place in Colliefornia. Perhaps PSYCHOPATH Charles Manson would have done less damage to innocent Americans. Just sayin’. Some PSYCHOPATHS are more sophisticated and better connected/supported than others...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyBNRxeeyHc
“Without Conscience” - Dr. Robert Hare
Not if they don’t have power...dumb*ss.
My wife is a teacher in Anaheim California.
She is an honorable woman who always attempts to educate children to the best of her abilities and has been, up to this point, highly successful in that endeavor.
No more. These school districts were not ready (and should have been) for remote learning. Their IT staff has not figured out how to use available technology and their curriculum staff does not know how to use the technology coupled with a sane process in order to teach kids.
Yesterday she got one hour of instruction in during the day while dealing with all the technical issues of the children in her class, as well as, the problem of the system crashing to its knees first thing in the morning.
The Good News you may ask is that since all of the parents are at home, this is not going to last too long since they will notice real quick how little educating is going on and how much time is wasted on technology and an ill-designed process. They will notice that their kids are not learning anything and will start screaming.
There will be no such thing as truancy enforcement.
Where are the millions of laptops for poor children?
Where is the home assistance for children of single mothers to navigate computing devices and the Internet?
Many of these single mothers are themselves illiterate.
Where is the universal Internet connected to every poor household?
About the only positive thing about this is the Marxist public school teachers will lose control over their anti-American propaganda fed to children to get them to hate America from an early age.
It doesn’t matter whether CA schools start, if people have technology, etc. The kids who graduate there are functionally illiterate and math challenged. Why even bother?
I’ve been in the IT industry for 25 years. In my experience the single most incompetent IT Departments are in School Districts.
Bar none.
And the outright corruption in the E-Rate program is mind boggling.
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Remote learning needs the parents cooperation and assistance, this will fall short. This is an excuse to keep the teachers out and paid, parents at home and not working because of it and some teachers concentrating on thier new career as a rioter protester
The schools have had months to prepare for online teaching now. Last March it was a sudden change. There is no excuse for not being ready now.
Just give the money to the parents and let them purchase the online education they prefer.
Note by the way I believe that Newsom’s own children are in the 4% who ARE allowed in-person education (a private school in a county not on the “watchlist”).
We just started “remote learning” this week. Parents of K and 1st graders are already withdrawing their kids from my district as they can only sit still in front of these laptops for 15 minutes, are playing with the mute buttons (muting and unmuting), and need constant parental supervision of “remote learning” to work at all.
They are now looking for “preschools” (day care) that are allowed to be in person (which they are) instead. They will have to pay for this of course instead of the free public education we are all supposed to get.
Meanwhile my teen describes the experience as “watching school.” At least, unlike the spring, it is live synchronous education. (In the spring they only posted one assignment a week and had no grades—for HS!)
Things are already changing for the better a tiny bit in CA with education—Newsom said yesterday that “waivers” can be granted for elementary, but only if the union and county agrees (my county just flip flopped on that), and special needs kids (and others for whom “home learning is not fruitful”) will be allowed back on campuses starting next week (”remote learning” is a disaster for them). My teens can’t return to their schools though until my county has 17 consecutive days of declining cases with fewer than 100 cases per 100,000. A very difficult hurdle. Parents are NOT offered any choice between online, hybrid, or in person. We live under tyranny.
My daughter’s private school will pivot to in person the second they are allowed to, while my son’s public school won’t—the teachers unions won’t allow in person education, likely for the rest of the year—maybe forever.
As a grown adult even with good intention how many of us would go online for 2 hours a day of being educated? Do they really thinks kids will?
They’ve had months to prepare. Little podunk poor rural schools are up and running virtual learning. Typical of CA to drag their feet and mess up everything they touch. And with Silicon Valley right there.
IOW, gotta get those kids back in pubic daycare so the parents can sleep all day. It’s not like many parents ever checked before if their kids bothered to turn in homework. Those same parents can’t be bothered to see if their kids logged into school that day.
Serious question: Will “the public” (that pays for the schools) get access to the live teaching feeds?
It takes a pandemic to bring out the craziness for some.
Gub, just resign and go live your life on Strawberry Heights next to Nurse Nanny, your ‘Auntie’.
Governor Newsom says teachers union wins dumbing down ensues but what the hell it’s the votes that count any way.
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