schools might closed down till September

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Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

I totally agree! Kids learn more and quickly when it's one on one or even a very small group. School curriculum for each grade is available at school district websites so it's easy to figure out what you should be teaching for the grade your child is in. Another advantage to homeschooling is that typically the teacher (you) doesn't stop teaching a topic until the kid gets it, whereas in public schools it is often the case that the class must move on to the next topic before all kids have mastered the one before.

This is all especially true for elementary school, assuming the teacher graduated from high school at least. Upper grades might be a bit more challenging but can be done as well, the school work is all available online.

Don't spend more than 1-3 hrs per day working on academics with your kid, that's enough. Design the rest of the day to cover all the other stuff they need, such as art, physical education, music, keyboarding, a foreign language, social skills, kindness, life skills, etc.

All of you newly homeschooling parents out there, you can do it!

Honestly, this really varies by child. Some learn well one-on-one or in a very small group, while others do better in larger groups. I've got one of each.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

The homeschool community is like, "Welcome to the family".

Naw man I still social distance from those people

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Anonymous wrote:It wouldn’t work to just use quarter or semester grades as final grades in high school because only final grades show on a transcript and most teachers start the kids out low and raise their grades throughout the year. They call it a trend or showing progress. If they stopped right now, my sons grades would be significantly lower than they would be at the end of the year.

Uh this is not true. We don’t start your kids’ grades or end them anywhere. Your kids earn them.

You should talk to the teachers at my kids high school then. Most will literally tell you that it is standards based and their grade will go up as they master the material during the year. For example, French teacher said at BTS night, no one would get higher than a C first quarter or B second quarter. Only math is a straight average.

What school is that?

I’m not going to share the name, but it’s a FCPS high school.

It's a bad one.

Notice she cited French. An elective. Teachers do not do this. I assure you.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares. Give everybody an NA.

It’s public school. Everyone already has all As. Keep up.

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I give a 99.99999% chance of re-opening prior to next September.

My kids were complaining of not a single snow day and now they have 6 months off most likely. Yikes

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Some of us have no desire to homeschool our kids. I am a shitty ass teacher, I lack the patience to homeschool my children. I admit it, I know my strengths and weaknesses, teach my kids shit is not one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

I totally agree! Kids learn more and quickly when it's one on one or even a very small group. School curriculum for each grade is available at school district websites so it's easy to figure out what you should be teaching for the grade your child is in. Another advantage to homeschooling is that typically the teacher (you) doesn't stop teaching a topic until the kid gets it, whereas in public schools it is often the case that the class must move on to the next topic before all kids have mastered the one before.

This is all especially true for elementary school, assuming the teacher graduated from high school at least. Upper grades might be a bit more challenging but can be done as well, the school work is all available online.

Don't spend more than 1-3 hrs per day working on academics with your kid, that's enough. Design the rest of the day to cover all the other stuff they need, such as art, physical education, music, keyboarding, a foreign language, social skills, kindness, life skills, etc.

All of you newly homeschooling parents out there, you can do it!

It’s not the same though. I know people that homeschool and it doesn’t involve never leaving the house or interacting with other kids. They do a lot of small group meet ups, field trips, kids play on sports teams. I can keep my 12 and 14 year old up to speed academically but doing it all online without social contact is going to be very weird for my kids and probably not very motivating.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

I totally agree! Kids learn more and quickly when it's one on one or even a very small group. School curriculum for each grade is available at school district websites so it's easy to figure out what you should be teaching for the grade your child is in. Another advantage to homeschooling is that typically the teacher (you) doesn't stop teaching a topic until the kid gets it, whereas in public schools it is often the case that the class must move on to the next topic before all kids have mastered the one before.

This is all especially true for elementary school, assuming the teacher graduated from high school at least. Upper grades might be a bit more challenging but can be done as well, the school work is all available online.

Don't spend more than 1-3 hrs per day working on academics with your kid, that's enough. Design the rest of the day to cover all the other stuff they need, such as art, physical education, music, keyboarding, a foreign language, social skills, kindness, life skills, etc.

All of you newly homeschooling parents out there, you can do it!

It’s not the same though. I know people that homeschool and it doesn’t involve never leaving the house or interacting with other kids. They do a lot of small group meet ups, field trips, kids play on sports teams. I can keep my 12 and 14 year old up to speed academically but doing it all online without social contact is going to be very weird for my kids and probably not very motivating.

Isn't that type of homeschooler usually the unschooling, non vaccine crowd?

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Anonymous wrote:I am kind of concerned about this too, but then I ask myself “how did people think about grades during the Spanish flu pandemic?”

I think a sense of normalcy is important, but so is perspective. These are weird times. If we are healthy, we are okay. Nothing else matters that much.

Millions of people were dying dying the Spanish flu.

Only 3,000 Americans have covid 19. Do you know anyone dying? Do you know anyone critically ill? My guess is no.

Hey a-hole, we are trying to prevent millions of Americans from dying.

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Anonymous wrote:Just restart the school year for everyone in September.

What about the seniors? My dd knows where she is going for college. She is not retaking this year

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Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

The homeschool community is like, "Welcome to the family".

Naw man I still social distance from those people

The secular, eclectic and academic homeschooler FB page has blown up in the last few days. No need for face to face contact.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

I totally agree! Kids learn more and quickly when it's one on one or even a very small group. School curriculum for each grade is available at school district websites so it's easy to figure out what you should be teaching for the grade your child is in. Another advantage to homeschooling is that typically the teacher (you) doesn't stop teaching a topic until the kid gets it, whereas in public schools it is often the case that the class must move on to the next topic before all kids have mastered the one before.

This is all especially true for elementary school, assuming the teacher graduated from high school at least. Upper grades might be a bit more challenging but can be done as well, the school work is all available online.

Don't spend more than 1-3 hrs per day working on academics with your kid, that's enough. Design the rest of the day to cover all the other stuff they need, such as art, physical education, music, keyboarding, a foreign language, social skills, kindness, life skills, etc.

All of you newly homeschooling parents out there, you can do it!

It’s not the same though. I know people that homeschool and it doesn’t involve never leaving the house or interacting with other kids. They do a lot of small group meet ups, field trips, kids play on sports teams. I can keep my 12 and 14 year old up to speed academically but doing it all online without social contact is going to be very weird for my kids and probably not very motivating.

Isn't that type of homeschooler usually the unschooling, non vaccine crowd?

There are many varieties of homeschoolers. There are unschoolers who vaccine and classical homeschoolers who don't. You just can't generalize. As for not leaving the house (btw, you can take your kids outside, just keep distance from others), there are museums and historical sites which offer free virtual tours.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great because homeschooling is great for learning. Wish I had homeschooled my kids.

I totally agree! Kids learn more and quickly when it's one on one or even a very small group. School curriculum for each grade is available at school district websites so it's easy to figure out what you should be teaching for the grade your child is in. Another advantage to homeschooling is that typically the teacher (you) doesn't stop teaching a topic until the kid gets it, whereas in public schools it is often the case that the class must move on to the next topic before all kids have mastered the one before.

This is all especially true for elementary school, assuming the teacher graduated from high school at least. Upper grades might be a bit more challenging but can be done as well, the school work is all available online.

Don't spend more than 1-3 hrs per day working on academics with your kid, that's enough. Design the rest of the day to cover all the other stuff they need, such as art, physical education, music, keyboarding, a foreign language, social skills, kindness, life skills, etc.

All of you newly homeschooling parents out there, you can do it!

It’s not the same though. I know people that homeschool and it doesn’t involve never leaving the house or interacting with other kids. They do a lot of small group meet ups, field trips, kids play on sports teams. I can keep my 12 and 14 year old up to speed academically but doing it all online without social contact is going to be very weird for my kids and probably not very motivating.

They have each other and you. Why not get creative and do a project together?

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Anonymous wrote:It wouldn’t work to just use quarter or semester grades as final grades in high school because only final grades show on a transcript and most teachers start the kids out low and raise their grades throughout the year. They call it a trend or showing progress. If they stopped right now, my sons grades would be significantly lower than they would be at the end of the year.

It's one semester/year that will be the same for everyone. Your DS isn't worse off than everyone else.

+1 Everyone is in the same boat, and colleges will know that when looking at applications. Really, the only thing that matters right now are high school credits that students NEED for graduating, and college credits that students NEED for degree completion. The most reasonable place to start with is pass/no credit for classes in progress. Students currently passing would get credit, students currently failing would get an opportunity to take an online version for credit if they need it for high school graduation (those courses already exist).

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Anonymous wrote:I give a 99.99999% chance of re-opening prior to next September.

My kids were complaining of not a single snow day and now they have 6 months off most likely. Yikes

teach them be careful what you wish for