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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outdoor school would not need to mimic indoor school. Best for elementary school ages, when so much learning is experiential. I think it would be harder for, say, calculus. They don't need desks or chalkboards necessarily. But they do need innovative administrators and educators.[/quote]

How do you suggest they do stations, work with math manipulatives, color or do art activities, have enough reading books all at different levels outdoors for 25 kids?

So what, the kids are going to learn how to do math problems in their heads without writing down groupings or using blocks? They are going to learn spelling by putting words together in their head?  Of course they are going to need a desk.  Along those lines, how do you expect them to learn to write letters, words, or sentences?   Juggling a notebook while sitting in the grass?  Great form and example there.

Not going to work without the typical accessories and things needed for learning. So let’s bring out a million things outside for hundreds of kids and have it sitting in the grass and mud.  Then lug it back in again.

Do you even have an elementary age child?

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NP. My four-year-old is not going to be learning much math or spelling via the iPAD while my husband and I desperately try to do our jobs. DL was largely fictional in the spring for him and it's going to be fictional in the fall, no matter how hard his school tries (and they are legitimately trying very hard), because he is not developmentally ready for it. Sitting on the grass alternating being read to, running around, being taught by a teacher writing on a portable whiteboard-- all of these would be a better experience for him than what's currently planned, because they would be in-person. Obviously it would not be the same as in-classroom school. But that's not the alternative here. The alternative is that we all pretend that DL school is school, like if I close my eyes and wish really hard it'll be the case that these kids aren't about to miss out on another year of education. [/quote]

Your kid is 4 and schooling is not mandatory.  Get over yourself.  Parents of kids who are older have legitimate concerns.  People whose kids are in PreK are just complaining. Put your kid in daycare. [/quote]

THIS. The ECE parents just need to stop with the complaint and whining. [/quote]

I also have a 6-year-old. It's not going to be much less fictional for her, either. [/quote]

We have a soon to be 6 year old going into 1st.  Absolutely need a pencil, paper, desk, chair, math manipulatives, books, etc..

I don’t know what your 6 year old is doing at your charter but ours is doing math addition/subtraction 10-20, working on writing sentences and spelling, and reading books.  DL can’t take the place of live in school teaching but the DL was good at our charter and kids moved forward.  [/quote]

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