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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think parents would be less annoyed if the distance teaching was more than an hour a day and actually felt like it wasn't making our kids fall far behind.  Teachers have to understand any part time school solutions = layoffs and budget cuts.  No way you can justify fulltime staff with what they've been doing to date.  [/quote]

I have read releases from most of the school districts in Maryland and they all have acknowledged that if there is DL in the fall, it will look much different and be better. All admit that they scrambled to put together the program when schools closed, and they started when they thought schools would reopen.

For teachers who don't want to return to F2F due to health concerns, which I completely understand, my question would be can you make childcare arrangements for your own kids to allow more synchronous learning? When we closed schools in the spring, many teachers said that they couldn't possibly work with their kids at home, and that alienated people who had to do their jobs full-time at home and cover educational material with their kids. Teachers always say that they shouldn't have to do anything that involves them getting childcare, and I understand that is the expectation for teaching. However, if you have a choice between providing greater availability via distance learning platforms with care for your own kids in place or returning to the classroom with limited health measures in place, which would you choose?

The childcare argument was often raised in connection with inability to provide synchronous learning. Frankly, I would be satisfied with recorded lessons. In our county, only a few teachers did any instruction at all. All the high school students got was the weekly check ins. I also thought that maybe certain teachers could be designated to do the lessons, either live or recorded, freeing up other teachers to interact with students virtually in smaller groups. Many kids, including mine, won't speak up or ask questions in a virtual class with 30 kids, but if there were 10, it might be a different story.[/quote]

Agreed![/quote]

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