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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer OP question: for how long? I am OK with my kids staying at home the whole school year. I am enjoying my extra time with them. They'll probably get a lot more years of in-person schooling later on in the future, so I'm good with this year at home.[/quote]

I'm ok with distance learning all year if necessary.  My mother-in-law grew up during World War II and didn't go to school for years.  She is a very solid intelligent person that grew up to be a chemist.  It will be fine.

I used to be a teacher in Ward 8 and am tired of people using at-risk students as a pawns in their arguments and stating that teachers don't care.  Ridiculous.  The achievement gap has been an issue in the District for decades and its wouldn't have been resolved by this plan.  There needs to be other interventions and investments.     [/quote]

I'm impressed by this argument. Truly impressed. You managed to string together SO MANY bad arguments into so few sentences! Like, just look at this list!

1. I knew someone who turned out okay with fewer years of schooling 80 years ago, ergo all students today will be fine.
2. Saying you care about at-risk students is evidence you don't care about at-risk students.
3. The achievement gap has always existed, and therefore we should not care whether it is increasing
4. Going back in person, won't fix the achievement gap, so we should just not do it.
5. We should do something else. I don't know what. But not this.

I really have to hand it to you. That was a truly efficient way to make many bad arguments all at the same time.[/quote]

Teachers are constantly suggesting that plans should be discarded if they are not perfect solutions to all educational problems, which is just another way of ensuring that no progress can be made.[/quote]

This! They're pointing at anything and everything and saying all of society's ills must be cured before they go back to work![/quote]

And the constant pretending that school's only role is to provide a method for a teacher to broadcast information to students as though teaching and not learning was the more important activity. That it's childrens' and parents' fault if the kids aren't effectively learning in this situation. That schools have no other social roles, including community health, civic education, socialized daycare, socialization, community building and integration, etc.

No. Schools are simply a method for teachers to teach. And if kids aren't learning, well, it doesn't matter if the teachers say they're working hard enough.[/quote]

Extremely well put.[/quote]

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