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!

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.

Absolutely right that it's not the same. However, it is not the end of education either for those who are worried about that. Homeschooling is a valid way to educate kids and the typical homeschooled student ends up with a very high quality education and has no trouble getting into a good college.

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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.

That's because until now the "doubling" portion of the exponential curve has resulted in small totals (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc). But now that we've reached critical mass, each doubling will rapidly lead to millions and more. The current doubling rate seems to be about 2-3 days. I'll let you do the math, but under this same rate (assuming the social distancing doesn't work, or people don't follow it and this rate doesn't change), we'll hit a million in about 20-21 days, which is 3 weeks. I'm not taking into account the actual number of infections (which we don't know since testing so far has been minimal, but could be logically estimated at 10x or more).

Let's hope that everyone in the country assumes the level of individual responsibility they need to in order to put a dent in this curve.

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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

+1. My senior has several college acceptances and is waiting on 2 more to make a decision. And frankly has checked out of schoolwork and has a raging case of senioritis. After a year of applications and agony, he isn’t redoing a year of HS high school. They can graduate him and he can go to college. Or, we can submit 3 quarters of senior grades and he can take the GED and go to college. But he’s not starting senior year over.

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My sophomore is taking the drivers ed class in PE right now. The DMV is not going to just "waive" completion of the classroom requirement. All those kids HAVE to complete that class in order to get their licenses. I am sure some families were relying on their kids passing that and getting their driver's license for summer jobs.

One quarter of the 10th grade class is still planning to start and finish the classroom portion in the 4th quarter of the year as well.

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

Where will they put entering first graders? At some point kids have to move on/move up.

[Anonymous]

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

I guess you don’t have kids in AP calc and chem

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Or multivar

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Anonymous wrote:Or multivar

That one is easy. They can take it in college.

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

Where will they put entering first graders? At some point kids have to move on/move up.

Yeah I have a rising kindergartner. Where are those kids gonna go? Not realistic to restart.

[Anonymous]

If the kids are going to stay home for six months and be home-schooled...

That means the parents are going to stay home for six months in order to home-school them.

And the parents will, at the same time, do their regular jobs via telework.

Really?

I guess we'll find out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sophomore is taking the drivers ed class in PE right now. The DMV is not going to just "waive" completion of the classroom requirement. All those kids HAVE to complete that class in order to get their licenses. I am sure some families were relying on their kids passing that and getting their driver's license for summer jobs.

One quarter of the 10th grade class is still planning to start and finish the classroom portion in the 4th quarter of the year as well.

check this out: https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/drivers/#homeschoolers.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Um, in case you haven't been keeping up, they are all closed.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

+1. My senior has several college acceptances and is waiting on 2 more to make a decision. And frankly has checked out of schoolwork and has a raging case of senioritis. After a year of applications and agony, he isn’t redoing a year of HS high school. They can graduate him and he can go to college. Or, we can submit 3 quarters of senior grades and he can take the GED and go to college. But he’s not starting senior year over.

Gap year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Where will they put entering first graders? At some point kids have to move on/move up.

Yeah I have a rising kindergartner. Where are those kids gonna go? Not realistic to restart.

Preschool is more age appropriate anyway...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Um, in case you haven't been keeping up, they are all closed.....

PP said “virtual”.....