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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"staring at a screen most of the day, in a mask, 6 feet apart from every other person, eating lunch at her desk, and being taught the a teacher who is not using manipulative or hands on learning. Two days a week."

This is exactly what the hybrid/concurrent model looks like, which is not brand new information. The "not using manipulatives/hands-on learning" might be a class by class decision (e.g. each in person child could have their own set of cards to sort, or dice to use), but most likely won't go beyond that. [/quote]

Hybrid was different. Hybrid was 2 days in-person learning in the classroom, 3 days asynch at home. Kids who choose DL would have been in a different class with a teacher 4 learning synchronously for 4 days, 1 day asynch. Very different then concurrent. Hybrid sounds far better because they kids would have a chance to learn more material in the two days, due to fewer kids and fewer classroom issues. The asynch days would have been home practice to reinforce what had been done in the classroom.

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I have a SIL&BIL whose kids are doing a hybrid plan. They said it it less learning than DL because the asynch days are worthless.[/quote]

Asynch is what you make of it. DS is required to do all the work his Teachers assign plus any of the "may dos." That keeps him busy and reinforcing whatever it is they are learning for most of the day. His friends parents complain about asynch but they don't have their kids do the work because the kids complain about doing it. I know this because they tell me. My son complained a few times that his friends don't do the work so why should he. We reminded him that every family does things differently but our expectation is that he does hte work his teacher assigns to the best of his ability. Do I think it is great? Nope. Do I think it is better then being stuck in a classroom doing distance learning, which is what concurrent is. yup.

None of the options are going to compare to 5 days in the classroom. Hybrid is a better option because the Teacher doesn't have to divide her/his attention between kids in the classroom and kids at home. Neither group will get close to the Teachers full attention and both groups will suffer. At lest in hybrid, the Teachers focus is on the kids who are in the classroom. I would prefer the Teachers full attention on 8-9 kids in class twice a week with work at home reinforcing the classroom learning then divided attention over four days.

Even if the asynch days are crap, I can only imagine how much more a Teacher can cover with a class of 8 compared to a class of 24.  
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