Private school teachers show up. Public—no. The students are starting to slowly return to school but with subs—teachers won’t come back in CA and are streamed to a screen on the wall or to the students’ laptops.
And in some states and districts across the country, schools have been opened since May 2020. Here in NJ, many school districts have been opened, Hybrid model, since September 8.
My district (in Camden County) opened for two weeks (6 school days) in the middle of November only to close until January 19 when it again opened on the Hybrid model. And only opened because Trump was gone.
Private schools here have been opened since September 8th.
My district requires masks and face shields and it sucks! I’d rather be teaching from home, mask and shield free, online. It’s not like the kids are getting any better of an education.
There’s a bright side, imo. The kids are only in school for 4 hours, 2 days/week per cohort. The rest is online and in my professional opinion, that works out in the students favor.
Is there a reason for the schools to be closed or operating on a hybrid schedule? NOPE, imo. However, it has opened a lot of eyes to our educational system.
NJ kids will be behind the kids in many states that opened in May and Sept., imo. My district only opened in Nov for 6 days then shut down again until a couple weeks ago. Our kids will suffer, imo.
I’m happy my kids are grown and out of school, not dealing with this nonsense. My youngest was in senior year college when the shut down happened and it was awful but she’s fine now. No in person graduation, graduation party delayed and modified, but fine. It works out most of the time.
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.