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[quote=Anonymous]My DD's teacher recently left on maternity leave and things have been pretty brutal with the long term substitute.  She isn't fluid with the computer so lots of time is lost as she tries to go back and forth between things.  We are also having audio tech issues that we didn't have before, leading me to think she may have inadequate wifi to run these calls.  She seems to be reading off of a script and doesn't adapt well to any sort of variation.  She speaks in a very soft, monotone voice that is very hard to stay engaged with.  Finally, she has a very thick accent that is hard for me to understand and even more difficult for the kids.  This is particularly problematic because a lot of K is learning letters and what sounds they make and that is much harder with the accent.  Obviously, there is nothing the teacher can do about he accent and it isn't her "fault," but it is going to make it really hard for the kids to learn.

Before this, things had been going . . . ok.  To her credit, DD was able to more or less stay engaged despite the ours in front of a screen and the difficulty of doing remote learning as a 5-yr old.  I doubt she was learning as much as she would have in real school, but it wasn't worthless.  Now, she is already growing really frustrated about not being able to understand or be understood.  She has gotten extremely fidgety and is no longer engaged the way she was when the teacher was (frankly) far more engaging.

I guess this is just a vent.  I have no delusions that there is anything we can do about it.  I just hope the regular teacher actually returns as planned because, if I knew it was going to be like this the whole year, I don't know that I would keep her in the class.[/quote]

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