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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can only even have this argument because technology allows for "distance learning". A few decades ago, schools would just have closed, and then they wouldn't have been providing education OR child care. Before now, the child care and education were inseparable because kids had to be in person to do it. [/quote]

Right, and I think that's clouding the discussion. I have an incoming kindergartener who can't read. (We're working on it, he knows some sight words and is getting better at sounding them out, but he isn't a comfortable, fluent, independent reader.) I'm frankly quite skeptical that they ARE separable. I suspect the parents or whoever is doing the childcare will also be doing an equal amount of the education as the teacher, if not more. I suspect kids will not learn as much if they have working parents, which would indicate that education is not something you can deliver at arm's reach. These are just my suspicions. I'd like to be wrong.[/quote]

Then teach your kid to read like the rest of us did.   You still need to supplement at home.  [/quote]

I'm working on it, thanks. My point in mentioning that was that my kid can't even do the first step in DL on his own, which is read the schedule. This is going to take intensive parental involvement. Did you "supplement at home" by leaving your workplace, showing up at your kid's school, finding the right workbook, and turning to the right page for every lesson, every day? Supplementing at home is practicing sounding out words after school and work. This is not the same at all and you're being totally disingenuous.[/quote]

Yes it takes intensive parental involvement but most people do.  Would I do that, absolutely and I did.  My child ended up with SN and I ended up quitting to make sure he got to daily (sometimes multiple times a day therapies) and we did tons of supplementing at home.  My husband took off on days I could not do it and he now does the main part of DL making sure the kids are on, supplementing things like math (beyond me at this point) and much more.  We taught are kids to read and have always supplemented math heavily to keep them on track.  But, the difference between you and us is we are heavily involved parents and our kids needs come first.  Supplementing at home is teaching your kids to read and basic math, not 5 minutes before bed of sounding out words while you tuck them in.  You make it work or you hire someone.[/quote]
Find a way to pay either me or my husband enough that one of us can stay home and we'll gladly do that. As is, it isn't an option to just not work, we need to eat, live indoors, wear clothes and occasionally get medical care.  Contrary to popular belief, we don't work for fun, personal fulfillment or ego, we work because we need the money. [/quote]

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