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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day a week is better than none. Labs, presentations, q&a  - much better in person.[/quote]

yes, but if you're doing this with 25% of the class on each of the 4 days, what is the other 75% of the class doing on each of these days???
Who is teaching them at home?
Are they just doing homework?
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Yeah, that's my question too. I would prefer five days of in-person school, of course, but ... if it's ONE day of in-person school with no social stuff (no recess, lunch in the classroom, no after school activities) plus four days of working on homework/tests/whatever, then I'd rather have five days where they're actually SEEING their teachers and interacting with them. Maybe it makes sense for high school - as the parent of a middle-schooler, I felt that language learning and science class were probably the least suited to distance learning, but they aren't really doing big time lab work in 6th-7th grade. (though they were doing some fun experiments! I'm trying to supplement that a little bit at home with some science kits and lots and lots of NOVA but it isn't the same of course.)
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High school and middle school don't have recess. And of course they will be social kids talk to each other in class and at lunch. 
[b]One day keep everyone accountable to do the work on the other days. [/b]Any amount of actual face time, checking in, time for in person questions, labs, hands on projects is important.  Of course the school needs to completely change the scope of the school and prioritize what schools need to be teaching on the in person day and the online days .[/quote]

So kids will see their math teachers (for example) one day per week an then teach themselves math the rest of the time using Khan?  
My kid did this last spring from March 13th on for Algebra in 7th grade but I really don't look forward to an entire year of Geometry learned by Khan.  My kid loves Math but the 4th quarter of Algebra was basically self-taught.  We did a lot of instruction at home as my husband is great at math. 
I can't see this working for kids who don't have a mathe-brained parent at home. [/quote]

This is why hybrid won’t work.  How will kids only get instruction one day a week and then teach themselves biology, us history, AP Physics, etc.?  Some of those courses are really difficult, some of those courses really benefit from discussions , not just readings or videos.[/quote]

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