Why do so many parents want DL forever?

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Anonymous wrote:Majority of parents will send their kids back when it’s safe. There is no vaccine for kids and many adults are not eligible. You may be ok with sending yours but it’s ok we are not. That makes it safer for yours. If people were behaving differently in terms of travel, socializing and all that then maybe it would be safer. But people choose to continue the spread so the rest of us get punished by their choices. Stop caring about others wanting DL and be responsible so we can all safely return.

Everyone is eligible now for the vaccine. School is already safe, but now you DL crazies have no excuse to continue your hibernation away from society.

OMG. It is sad. You even wake up angry and insane. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Everyone is NOT eligible for the vaccine. Children are NOT eligible for the vaccine. Not all adults everywhere are eligible for the vaccine. You really need to work on your ignorance and your anger. Therapy will help with the anger. I don't know what to tell you about your ignorance because ignorance is a choice that you've made to refuse to be educated.

I can completely understand why your kids want to go to school. If I were desperate to get away from you, I would want to go to school, too.

In the meantime, the rest of us are stable and happy to let the pandemic subside before returning willy-nilly to the old ways because we're scared. We're not afraid to show our resilience and then act accordingly. We're making it work because we're flexible and adaptable. When the health situation improves then our kids will return to school. Until then we will keep on doing what we've been doing because our kids are happy and thriving, and that's what is important to us.

Wow that's just a whole string of inane personal attacks paired with ignorance. Really lowering the level of debate here, but I do appreciate how you're pretending as though you're the reasonable one. It's got a sort of Trump-world inversion logic to it.

Impressively done.

The person they were replying to called people who want distance learning during a pandemic “crazies.”

Spare us your longwinded sanctimony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.

Please tell us where.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.

Please tell us where.

Many parts of Colorado.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.

Please tell us where.

Many parts of Colorado.

What are the characteristics of the districts that go 4-days-a-week? Rural? What types of jobs? Is the level of education the same? Are school days longer? Does the district offer help for the families that would need to hire someone for that fifth day (eg., school-based camp)?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.

Please tell us where.

Many parts of Colorado.

What are the characteristics of the districts that go 4-days-a-week? Rural? What types of jobs? Is the level of education the same? Are school days longer? Does the district offer help for the families that would need to hire someone for that fifth day (eg., school-based camp)?

Here's a link that answers a lot of your questions: https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeedserv/fourdayschoolweekmanual
I'm not from CO but have family there. Two of my cousins did four day school weeks when younger. I can ask them any specific questions you have and see if they know.

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Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

Sorry about your situation. But you can't please everyone. A 4 day school work could be adapted to quite easily, imo. In fact, ES used to have early dismissal on Mondays and it was fine. Daycare, TW, camps, SACC . . would all fill the gap.

Some DL would also eliminate the need for so many built in snow days/hours for snow days. Give them a couple days for "fun" then the rest can be done virtually and school can end earlier in the summer.

All of those options require money. Are you a republican? Because you are arguing for privatizing some amount of public goods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.

Yes and those districts and states were thoroughly mocked on here for years. It was seen as the low tax Republican states not having enough money to fund their schools and not caring enough about education to raise taxes to actually fund their schools. People wondered how the kids were getting a full education and what parents did on the Mondays off. The 4 day week is not a good thing, people.