Are your kids doing specials?
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Anonymous
| Are most people doing specials (Art, Music, PE)? |
Anonymous
| I’m a specials teacher and I ave about 10% participation. I e been assisting classroom teachers with check ins and recording extra read alouds etc For them to use on their pages |
Anonymous
| Nope. And our PE teacher has put minimal effort into her classes. These people should be assigned to work with students in small groups or their salaries should be cut. This is not sustainable for the school district. |
Anonymous
| barely. pretty disappointed. |
Anonymous
That’s awesome of you. The specials teachers at my school won’t help the academic content teachers. They think it’s an insult. Wouldn’t want to take time away from publishing one lesson per week, I guess. There are always the ones willing to go above and beyond (the music teacher at my kids’ school is one of them), but it’s so uneven and inequitable. I stopped following two of our specials teachers on social media because it’s clear they’re not doing much work at all. One is doing more than the bare minimum and her modules look awesome and I’m having my kids look at her modules instead of that specialist’s modules at their own school since that teacher still can’t figure out how to properly publish one lesson each week. I emailed her to let her know that nothing had been published for 2 weeks and she responded that she was still having trouble figuring out the technology so I sent her a Screencastify video I had made and she didn’t respond and nothing was fixed on her end. |
Anonymous
| No. I am doing my own version of the specials but not doing the school ones. |
Anonymous
| Yes. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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Our PE teacher put up some videos that I could have googled myself. She has not bothered to record herself doing stuff or check in on classes. Monday has passed and absolutely nothing for this week I am deeply disappointed in her. To add insult to injury she was caught on candid camera engaged in some political warfare yanking some political lawn signs off of property. It's all so embarrassing for our school community.
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Anonymous
Of course. Why would you give your child the impression that the arts or physical activity is not important? |
Anonymous
Art and physical activity is important, but doing it via online isn’t. My kid is doing plenty of physical activity and arts/crafts. |
Anonymous
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Nope. We tried it... PE had a couple of videos of kids who were way younger and doing very easy stuff. Art was a bit better... but we do drawing and our own physical activities every day: biking, workouts on YouTube, tennis (have a pop-up net in the driveway).
I actually wish PE could be a live workout with the PE teacher. My kid loves our PE teacher and would love to see him and participate... but the generic videos having been worth it. |
Anonymous
| No. I can barely keep my head above water right now so PE is teaching my kid to ride a bike and a few family hikes. Could be worse. Music is private piano lessons he was already taking. Art has gone by the wayside but something has to give. |
Anonymous
So weird that people are actively discouraging their children from participating in online learning and then turning around and saying online learning doesn't work. My kids are learning on a much more indepth level now because we are aware of their curriculum and are actively engaging with them. Children in public schools get very little (if any) personalized feedback. Here's your chance to be involved. Stop whining and take it. |
Anonymous
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Music, yes, enthusiastically. PE and art, she does because she feels it's rude to ignore her teachers. She does the bare minimum. They're not her favorite activities! |