Those of you complaining about a lack of distance learning and too much screen time...

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Anonymous wrote:lol library. Is this the 1800s

That says a lot about your level of education.

DP. I have a bachelors, masters, and doctorate and I don’t go to the library. Everything is digitized these days. PP is correct, this is not the 1800s.

Cool. I have a master's and I use the library so I'm both educated and I'm smart and I save a lot of money not buying books I will only read once.

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Anonymous wrote:What an obnoxious post, OP. It’s just not a real disaster unless some judgmental fool on DCUM can inform you you’re doing it wrong.

I’ll go you one better, OP. We’ve been buying books for years and have a huge home library. How shoddy of you to need to load up on books at the last second. Careless, really.

Seems wasteful to buy a ton of books you don’t intend to read in the very near future. Plus, you have nowhere near the diversity as a library does.

Nah, it works out well. The older kid’s books have become the younger kid’s books. The older kid is now able to read the thousands of adult-level books. And because the adults in this house don’t read pulp crap, books that are read ten years ago can be reread today.

Eh, you still won’t get the range of a good public library. We go through easily 300 different books a year with our preschooler. And some of them are unexpected ones that we wouldn’t have spotted on Amazon but that jumped out at us at the library.

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Anonymous wrote:So I'm a school librarian and I try to make sure that all of my students left school last Friday with at least a few books.

I'm a volunteer who helped our school librarian get the library ready for the shutdown. She didn't allow any books checked out as she couldn't guarantee that the more popular ones (some with surfaces slick surfaces like Dogman, etc.) weren't already infected. She did set up all the classes with the school account for an online reading site.
I know though that this wouldn't have worked for some schools whose kids were not advantaged enough to have internet access or a way to read online if their parent was working on the only computer. I would have been one of those kids when I was young and would have been very grateful if my school librarian had lent me something to read.

PP - I know it wasn't you, but... for goodness sake, when MCPS closed, we had like 12 cases in the entire state of Maryland (more than 6 million people). Everyone tries to be a public health expert AND people have really limited math skills. There was basically a zero chance that any of the kids had coronavirus, coupled with basically a zero chance that any particular library book was touched by someone with coronavirus.
- public health professional

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lol library. Is this the 1800s

That says a lot about your level of education.

DP. I have a bachelors, masters, and doctorate and I don’t go to the library. Everything is digitized these days. PP is correct, this is not the 1800s.

Cool. I have a master's and I use the library so I'm both educated and I'm smart and I save a lot of money not buying books I will only read once.

Well, super educated poster... you seem to have missed the research on eye movement on screens vs. paper, and the lack of retention from digital reading.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you bothered to visit the library and load up on books?

Because that was literally the first thing I did when I heard that schools were going to close, and I’m surprised more of you didn’t! It’s an easy, screen-free way to occupy our kids while we are teleworking. And also an easy and wonderful way to educate them, as we follow each book up with writing and discussion prompts. We will do some math and science eventually, after we settle into our routine and have the time for it. But even reading is all we do for the next 6 months, we will not feel an ounce of guilt or stress out, because that in and of itself will benefit them immensely. It’s okay if they learn multiplication or algebra 6 months later than they were supposed to.

You sound like a fun mama.

I am! And I’m not constantly complaining about their schools and teachers for not doing this or that. Nor am I complaining about being stressed out. I take the responsibility for educating my child, but I know how to do it in a balanced way.

Clap clap clap. Way to go mana- ignore the haters. They just jeallllous.