I've told the school that I have no access to the internet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’ll give you portable internet.

This is exactly what will happen. Expect a call from the school social worker or at least paper work to be sent home within the next few weeks.

+1

Nobody’s going to be “calling CPS,” but you will be wasting the time of the school staff who work to make sure kids have equitable access to learning.

This is so sad to me—I work in very low SES school and we haven’t been able to give hotspots to everyone who needs them since 2021, so we can’t assign anything that requires technology at home. My kids would be ecstatic to have access to our databases after school, and you make a game of it.

That’s the truth. I’m the person this poster quoted and now I’m getting upset thinking about the food I’ve brought in over the years because I knew they didn’t have anything at home. Kids in our area don’t have the basics and you are worried about online learning on snow days? I bet you are home with them on snow days. Why are you even thinking about this in August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t going to send CPS because you have no Internet. You will just get important info by mail not electronically and your kid will not have to do homework that requires Internet.

Not true. They might send home paperwork to see if you qualify for free internet.

OP, this is so dumb. Internet is a utility and the 20 min a day isn't going to do anything to your child. In fact, if you insist on putting them so far behind their peers in their ability to use the technology, you're doing them more harm than 20 min of online learning.

Gorillas can use the internet. It's not putting them far behind. Besides, we have internet - I just want to discourage snow days going virtual!

I'm with you. Snow days are a morale boost.

Just let your kid skip. It doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

I’m not in your area but our cable got turned off while I was out of work and the teacher who assigned online math told DD to do it after school in the computer lab. I told the teacher DD needed to leave by 4pm to be home before dark (it was winter) unless the teacher was willing to stay with her and then accompany her home on the train. She stared at me in shock. DD was excused from the requirement to go Kahn Academy by th he assistant principal.

[Anonymous]

All you are doing is making sure your kid gets less of an education. They will suffer long term. You need to wake up and grow up. Educators will not cater to your family's lack because then you will be enabled in this nonsense, that idea that "not everyone will have internet" is decades over. We assume kids will have access to technology and if not, we provide it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely poor kids sit in parents' cars in parking lots to get wifi for homework. You should be ashamed.

Yes, this parent should be ashamed. What a ridiculous post. Provide what your kids need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely poor kids sit in parents' cars in parking lots to get wifi for homework. You should be ashamed.

I don’t have a car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not in your area but our cable got turned off while I was out of work and the teacher who assigned online math told DD to do it after school in the computer lab. I told the teacher DD needed to leave by 4pm to be home before dark (it was winter) unless the teacher was willing to stay with her and then accompany her home on the train. She stared at me in shock. DD was excused from the requirement to go Kahn Academy by th he assistant principal.

Maybe The teacher was in shock because, if you were not working at the time, you could have picked up your daughter at school yourself to ensure she was able to get out of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because I hate online learning. If everyone did this, do you suppose it will make a difference? Or will they send Child Protective Services out to find out what is wrong with us?

I hope this is not real because you are taking time and resources away from families who actually don't have broadband internet at home by doing this. Someone has to take the time to contact you and offer you a MiFi device, and if you say no to it, then the entire class will not be assigned any homework or provided the opportunity to do anything online at home (my kids have used their school devices to conduct personal research on WorldBook, practice ReflexMath or Lexia at home, on their own, not forced by anyone).

Your stupid games and tricks are just making it harder for everyone else, you ignorant, selfish jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t going to send CPS because you have no Internet. You will just get important info by mail not electronically and your kid will not have to do homework that requires Internet.

Not true. They might send home paperwork to see if you qualify for free internet.

OP, this is so dumb. Internet is a utility and the 20 min a day isn't going to do anything to your child. In fact, if you insist on putting them so far behind their peers in their ability to use the technology, you're doing them more harm than 20 min of online learning.

Gorillas can use the internet. It's not putting them far behind. Besides, we have internet - I just want to discourage snow days going virtual!

Have you been living under a rock? Nobody does that anymore, you freak.

[Anonymous]

You don’t have to engage your child in school, but interfering with the school’s operation is just obnoxious. We don’t want your heroism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not in your area but our cable got turned off while I was out of work and the teacher who assigned online math told DD to do it after school in the computer lab. I told the teacher DD needed to leave by 4pm to be home before dark (it was winter) unless the teacher was willing to stay with her and then accompany her home on the train. She stared at me in shock. DD was excused from the requirement to go Kahn Academy by th he assistant principal.

Maybe The teacher was in shock because, if you were not working at the time, you could have picked up your daughter at school yourself to ensure she was able to get out of school.

I temping as much as possible . DD was old enough to take the train and get home as long as it was still light out.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am not sure if you are trying to prove a point or be funny. Either way, it’s a fail. You are telling them that you do not have internet in hopes of snow days not going virtual? You will be given the work in paper form or it will be completed (on the computer) upon your child’s return. Go about it the right way as this is no correlation to snow days. Attend the school board meetings. Reach out to the superintendent. How many snow days you get last year that this would even be a concern?

[Anonymous]

Imagine hating the internet so much that you complain about the internet using the internet to write on an anonymous internet message board.

This is a fake post. Move on.

[Anonymous]

so, you are telling us you are a liar.

do your kids know you are a liar?

what an example example!

[Anonymous]

Your kid will still do online learning at school