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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know NOW that you will need to have work for kids who will be out sick and quarantining. That is not a maybe. It is a fact.

Frankly perhaps one good thing to come from this will be teachers and schools figuring out that it needs to be possible to miss school for a few days for illness without falling impossibly behind. In my view that means we actually do need textbooks and workbooks since saying read pages x to Y and do pages a to b in the workbook is much more doable than teachers inventing things on their own. But maybe someone else has a different solution…[/quote]

New poster. Workbooks are dandy for elementary. But they do nothing actually to instruct MS and especially HS students. Rote learning is beloved by some but it doesn't prepare students very well for college. I'll definitely agree that for a few days it's fine just to read and respond to the reading etc. but considering we can expect highly contagious Delta to keep kids out longer and keep more kids out, well, some students could end up with a large amount time spent doing of textbook-and-workbook "education." So much for learning critical thinking, discussion skills, group participation and group project skills that are important for college and/or employment. Let's get more aggressive about masking and distancing and requiring vaccines for ALL rather than caving in to the idea that, oh well, have those workbooks ready. [/quote]

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