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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine cried.  Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there.  I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.[/quote] Then go into school[/quote]

With the concurrent model all kids will be virtual more than they are in person.[/quote]

So for 50% of the time the kids at home should suck it up? It can be addressed especially with caring teachers, but wasn't a promising start.  [/quote]

Um, no- the point was that even the “go to school” pp’s kid will experience the short end of that stick, so perhaps s/he should help focus on a solution rather than be a jerk.[/quote]

There’s no solution. Concurrent is a horrible form of instruction. It’s the price we pay to get kids in the building but it is not and cannot be as good as instruction that is done solely in person or solely online. It is impossible to split your attention and focus evenly between two different groups and not have instruction quality suffer. The kid who cried because the camera was pointed at the teacher who was teaching to the class? That’s what many parents here say teachers SHOULD be doing. When we say we have to mostly teach to the device to keep the at home kids in the loop, they act like we are trying to make in person suck for those kids. Neither is true. We want both groups to learn and get attention but this form of instruction is NOT APPROPRIATE and the best we can do is not make it completely awful. There is no way to be great at it. [/quote]

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