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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher Here!! I am so tired of the excuse that DL did not work. I understand some of the complaints at the ES and MS level, but if your child is in HS and distance learning did not work, it was because your kid did not do the assignments. The amount of parents I called and they were so surprised when I told them their kids were not doing any assignments or showing up to class was insane. How about you be a parent and make sure your kids does the assignments. I would say that about 90% of my standard level and 75% of my honors students did not do the assignments. At a certain point I stopped calling because it was a waste of my time. Making grades optional was a huge mistake and by making assignments count in the Fall DL will make the process better. However, if you choose DL or we have to return to DL at some point parents will have to do more for distance learning. Check SIS and make sure your kids are completing assignments, which is something you should be doing already.

All that said I want to go back, I am a young healthy teacher and I feel safe, but I understand why older teachers do not and DL can be effective, but your kid has to take control of his own education or they are going to do poor in college anyway. College is not hard, it is just that kids don't spend time studying. In school I spend 60% of my time keep kids on task and 40% teaching. This is the sad truth, but DL can work the kids just have to mature. I teach 10 graders btw[/quote]

This is a great viewpoint, thank you.

And, agreed, making classes pass/fail, or the like was a huge mistake. I hate how everyone feels like they have to pussyfoot around these kids and use the excuse that DL isn't effective. Personally, I think parents ought to take away devices if kids aren't turning in homework. Unfortunately, I have firsthand experience of a co-parenting situation with rising 11/12 graders where one of the parents refuses to hold the kids accountable, to the detriment of the other parent's ability to do so. You can imagine what the spring was like. It was a giant disaster.[/quote]

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