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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It'll be so nice to get back to this sort of thing when the DL abomination is over..... /s

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bullying-concerns-at-school-in-fairfax-county-after-boy-suffers-multiple-concussions

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This article is about the utter failure of teachers and school staff to do their job. Hope they are ready for the huge increase in behavioral problems after schools were shuttered for a year.[/quote]

Are you essentially admitting that kids at home with their families will return to school so utterly feral that schools will become behavior modification centers? If so, you’re telling on yourself . My kids are perfectly functional and thriving because our house is just a normal house. They’ve been chillin and doing DL and they’re just fine. Not sure wtf is going on at your house if your kids aren’t able to behave and function in society if they’re there with you more than not. [/quote]

I'm sure you think you scored a point. You think you were clever in insulting the PP. But all you showed is how truly small-minded, ignorant, and undeservedly arrogant you really are. What happens in any given home cannot be extrapolated to an entire district next year. Nearly 200,000 kids in FCPS alone will have [b]to learn how to be students inside the classroom [/b]after being away for 1.5 years. All the while, the administrators and teachers will have to find a way to remediate a catastrophic (nearly) lost year of education. If you think this is going to be easy on the teachers and/or your perfectly functioning, thriving kids, you really have no idea what's coming.[/quote]

What I find really surprising about this line of argument is the idea that there is such a thing as "learning to be a student in a classroom" as if that were an end in itself. "Being a student" almost entirely involves being told what to do and following a limited set of instructions. This might have been a laudable goal about a century ago, when people graduated to go on to various clerical or paper pushing positions that they'd hold essentially for the rest of their lives. These days, not so much. And if you really think that's an important goal, 10 years of paper pushing vs. 12 isn't going to make a difference.

As for the idea that "you learn to work with others"...no, not really. My kids are excellent students and they've always loathed group projects--why? Because you don't get to fire the students assigned to your group, and  the general rule is that in a group project involving four people, two will do absolutely nothing, one will make a half-baked, sloppy contribution, and the student with the highest standards will end up carrying the entire thing for three happy free-loaders.[/quote]

DP.  Some kids are natural students, such as yours.  They don't need years of practice.

But other children aren't natural students, and they get better at it with practice.  Think of all of the students in your children's classes that you silently (or not so silently) disparage.  Those are ones who would improve with practice.  And will not have improved over this past year.[/quote]

That wasn't the point of my comment. 
The point of the first paragraph was that "being a student" is not a worthy end in itself. Education is more and more important, but the world is getting rid of jobs that involve listless paper pushing under orders.

The point of the second paragraph was (news flash) that the vast majority of students  don't like to do school work and there is no magic educational sauce that gets poured on when they have to "work with others", let alone sit in a group with others.

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