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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a good point. I noticed this back in April and May -- friends who weren't used to being home with their toddlers all day talking about how their 3-year-old was having trouble adjusting and seemed "off". But then when they'd describe the problems, I would quietly think to myself "That's just what my kid is like all the time..."

The people who have done one or two days of DL and are like "This is terrible, my kid hates it, this will never work" concern me. I'm very not excited about DL (my kids are 5 and 3, it's the pits) but give it, like, a minute.

It takes me at least six months to really settle in at a new job. Kids are actually so much more adaptable than adults and they will figure it out. All the pearl clutching is ridiculous.[/quote]

Its the parents that are more frustrated for a pointless reason than the kids imo. They're used to not having to deal with kids and their emotional development, instead they foist that off on teachers.

There's a reason its called the 'Terrible Twos' - because the kids are still AT HOME at that point. Its also the Terrible Threes and Fours but by that point the kid is in pre-k or kindergarten and someone else's problem. [/quote]
Maybe I'm the luckiest parent in the world, but, I think you're full of shit. Most of us actually like spending time with our kids and most kids are not throwing a lot of tantrums after 2 or 3.  However, you can't drop a 5 year old in front of a computer and say 'learn kid'. The parent is going to be doing all of the teaching anyway, so why bother with 'virtual  class' if the kids doesn't like it? The old fashioned way is fine.[/quote]

+1.  Seriously, its bullsh*t to pretend that everything is hunkydory except that kids are at home and those spoiled pampered parents just don't know how to deal with their kids.   I've been home with my kids plenty and sent them to school and no, they weren't throwing tantrums a lot at school.  When they had problems, I heard about it.  I would seriously question a K class where many kids are having tantrums regularly.

Stop pretending that remote K is just the same as K and that it's somehow developmentally appropriate for a child to sit in front of a screen all day and have "school" that way.  It's not.  [/quote]

Oh really? Recent Topics is full of posts of parents complaining of kids biting, 3-year-olds screaming for hours, kids hitting them, and lots of lying + acting out.

All of this was stuff kindergarten+elementary teachers dealt with on the regular and parents ignored because it wasn't possible that their 'special snowflake' was being bad.

Guess a lot of parents got a wake-up call during the pandemic.[/quote]

Are you stupid? Or maybe developmentally delayed? Can't you understand that staying in social isolation for almost 6 months is taking a toll on children? Teachers don't have to deal with anything different than parents. If anything, teachers deal with a milder version of the typical child, but it is well know that children behave and regulate themselves better while with strangers or non-familiar people.[/quote]

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