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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are definitely kids who are doing better in DL. They tend to be kids who had significant anxiety issues around in-person school before. I think one lesson that should be learned from this pandemic is that there is a group of kids for whom the stress of in-person learning impedes their access to education.

However, this group shouldn't be driving education policy for the population as a whole. [/quote]

[b]My kids do well at both. [/b] We've taught them to be flexible when an emergency comes up as we've had many and to make the best of a hard situation.  We also heavily support them in school regardless of how the actual teaching is done.  Parental support, especially k-6th is vital.  You cannot expect a K to just do DL or even in school and not supplement with the basics.[/quote]

We're glad your kids are those rare unicorns who are doing well right now. The point is that *many* other families are not served well by DL even with parents martyring themselves trying to make it work. Your incessant shouting that everything must be fine is drowning out those other legitimate perspectives.[/quote]

Clearly you are very fortunate that you haven't experienced anything bad in your life.  We have.  We've had multiple bad things happen.  COVID is a pandemic.  They happen every so often but we've been lucky we haven't had one in our life time or anything like war on our soil.  DL and having your kids at home is no big deal compared to some of the other things we've gone though.  You need involved parents who are setting the standard on how it should work.  The flexible camera's off, kids can read or do other things during class time or not caring if their kids show up are a huge issue as are those not monitoring to make sure the work is turned in.  Many of those kids have the same behaviors in person but the parents are checked out so they don't know about it.

I truly hope nothing truly bad ever happens to some of the people who cannot handle DL as they couldn't handle much else either.

Its 2020.  Time to adapt to our new normal and be thankful we have DL/online or we'd all have to be homeschooling.

There is no safe way to bring these large school systems back.

Most are not willing to stay home under a lockdown so this is going to continue for a very long time.  So, no point in fighting it and just find ways to make it work.  [/quote]

That is absolutely untrue and ridiculous. Because you have had bad things happen, doesn't mean that it is okay to impose a bad policy decision on an entire generation that will have terrible effects on our entire society. It isn't about an individual person or an individual family being able to handle something. And it certainly isn't about you.  It is about the broader affects on the entire society that start with the effects on millions of children and families.  People are so unbelievable self-centered. It is mind boggling.

And what the hell are you even talking about that there is no safe way for a large school system to do it? We literally saw the largest school system in America doing it in a safe way a week ago and they are about to do it again! And there are large systems that are going to be dong it all over the world tomorrow.

Sorry, you are on the wrong side of history here. I look forward to all the articles in a year talking about how we really screwed this one up. The comments section is going to be quite entertaining to see compared to the ones now...[/quote]

Very well said. People fail to look at this as a policy decision. This isn't a matter of individual morality in crisis. Europeans understand this and a are keeping schools open. History will judge America harshly and the effects will be felt for a long time to come.[/quote]

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