Posted on 02/06/2021 8:38:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Is this college? What state is this? Gloves and shields? My teen daughter’s high school even in the SF Bay Area, as blue as blue gets, doesn’t require gloves and shields.
No water on campus? No water bottles? Wow.
This must be New Mexico or Hawaii. The only states more locked down than CA.
Every stinkin teacher in this country should be fired and all our property tax to support the leeches unpaid. They’re disgusting.
Bay-area college.
My high school senior got into 8 colleges—3 of them Cal States, the rest in other states. He wants to go to one of the Cal States but he FAILED in remote learning last fall. I’m really hoping they truly reopen in the fall as they are claiming they will. I don’t trust them at all.
Oh don’t get me wrong. I love teaching face-to-face. But a return to fade-to-face classes with everyone being demoted to an adjunct faculty member due to COVID-19 would have killed me financially.
About $3000 per month average in the Bay-area doesn’t pay for a refrigerator box. At $50/hr for 16 hours a week plus prep time of another 2 hours isn’t a lot. Especially no pay from mid-December to mid-January due to the term break. But it pays double from what a grueling warehouse distribution job at Amazon in Denver would have paid.
It also wouldn’t allow me to work remotely simultaneously full-time for a college in Singapore, all while teaching from my house in the Philippines.
Lazy teachers.
I see it in rural NH, too. People walking down the side of a empty country road, mask dutifully in place and not a sign of another human being in sight.
Liberals are idiots wherever they live.
Look, with video you can view it over and over if need be until it sinks in, go back and zero in on areas of issue etc etc. Try that in a classroom. Same with lectures, technical tutorials, math etc.
Video is superior to traveling to some building somewhere, only to watch some person yak for 20 minutes and that’s it.
You best reread #13. It works and is an invaluable teaching tool. It’s the future in teaching. Teachers better get used to it.
I was in Key West a few weeks ago and went on a snorkeling trip on a weekday. I met a few teachers from Brooklyn who were on an extended vacation to Key West because schools are virtual. They were laughing about snorkeling during working hours.
They already had a small army of teachers aides and co-teachers doing that before Covid.
“ I’m sorry, but doesn’t this just a little bit smack OF ELITISM??”
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Yes, sure does. Example; most private schools are open for in class teaching. And btw, over 40% of Chicago public school teachers children attend private schools.
The only way to fix the public school problem is for congress to pass a voucher program. Competition has a cleansing effect and choice is the disinfectant.....
Can’t have teachers in the room but monitors are disease resistant are there,that makes so much sense,why didnt anyone think of that before?
Bureaucrats,got to love them,with the BLM crap they are teaching kids they are better off home anyway
Most people are more interested in the subsidized babysitting, getting the kids our of their hair so they can work, than they are in education. How else can you explain allowing your kids to be sent to indoctrination centers for 8 or more hours a day?
“Online learning sucks for the students, parents, and teachers right now but the potential is phenomenal...an entire leftist/communist institution can be destroyed and we’re morons if we don’t take advantage of that.”
Public education has existed for but 150 years. 100 of that has been compulsory.
I’ve observed a 5th grade teacher in my home for the last 4 months.
Axiom: Smart kids excel with online learning. The dumb and unmotivated stay true to their ways and fail, fail, fail.
And the idea kids have to go to class/school...in person...is a giant friggin LIE. It’s a lie promulgated by the state to preserve their largest institution.
How on earth did “social development” occur before public schools? Were ALL kids “harmed” by lack of on campus instruction for the first 15,000 years of human civilization?
The entire concept is ludicrous on its face.
““Remote learning” has been a failure for many students, K-12 and college too.”
Only for the dumb or unmotivated.
Smart kids EXCEL with it.
Not necessarily—many kids started out with As and Bs but now have Ds and Fs. They all weren’t dumb and unmotivated prior to covid.
I have two very different teens—one started out an A student; the other a C student—they both struggled with remote learning. The A student kept her As, but really wasn’t learning as much or as well (I moved her to a private school that was in person). The C student—a senior—is not dumb or unmotivated (he has a 1230 SAT, can code and is a ranked chess player and got into 8 colleges), but his grades plummeted. I pulled him out and he’s homeschooling now and got a part time job. Remote learning was a waste of time for him. It didn’t work for him and it doesn’t work for millions of students. The data are showing it.
In our area, the Asians are choosing to remain remote (we were asked to choose in person v remote for the remainder of the year and the school that is majority Asian overwhelmingly voted to remain remote). Those families prefer it for several reasons. And yes many of them are excelling with it (so it seems). But it’s also way easier to cheat with distance learning, so that may be a factor.
“everyone being demoted to an adjunct faculty member due to COVID-19”
What does that mean? Does Covid have something to do with tenure? Why did everyone get demoted?
The amount of information available in online coursework is at least as much as in-class schooling.
If your kids are not learning it, they may not be suited to academics and should consider other pursuits.
Because I have personally witnessed smart kids excelling and advancing beyond grade level.
Maybe the method bores them. Maybe the subject matter bores them. Maybe they are just making excuses for lack of effort.
Or maybe they are just not wired for academic achievement.
It’s not the method that is “not working”.
It’s the students that are not working.
It’s emotional blockage.
It’s your job to clear that.
Agree !
Though teachers unions are state problems !
JFK’s EO allowing unions in the federal government may have established a precedent. Its the state legislatures that allowed unions in state government and into education.
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