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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School is boring enough for most MS and HS students as it is. In-person there are more stimuli and fewer choices. Plus there is peer pressure and teacher-pressure to tune in. So much harder at home, so much harder alone. [/quote]

Why are they alone? Don't most parents make their kids go to school? How is this any different?[/quote]

They are alone because their parents are...wait for it...working. The entire point is that parents cannot be home schooling, they have jobs.[/quote]

I mean, they are alone because they are distance learning individually in their homes. Is that difficult to understand? Teens are pack animals. Just being in a group setting makes things easier for many of them.

We are choosing DL for our teens, but I don't think it's easy at all. And sadly I think that the attempts to basically replicate IP learning at home via the internet does a lot to expose the flaws in the system without leveraging the opportunities posed by DL. That will come, in due time. But in the meantime, it's going to be very challenging for all of us.

And, hey, if DL is easy for you and your family, then great! That is a good thing and I'm genuinely glad that a good option is open to you. [/quote]

My kids are participating in pack activities online for hours a day. They're playing on line games with groups of other kids. How is this different?[/quote]

Sigh. I can never quite understand questions like this. Or -- then maybe I do.

Because you're not really asking, are you? You're not dumb, you're just playing the part online as part of a self-reinforcing game you play with yourself in which you make yourself feel superior.

It's a rhetorical question for you, designed to prove a point. You've already arrived at your conclusion and you're arguing backwards.

Otherwise, why would you be deliberately obtuse about this?

See, I can ask rhetorical questions, too.

Here are my questions:

Do you really think DL and IP learning pose identical challenges and opportunities?
Is email the same as an in-person conversation? Is texting? 
Why travel when you can see everything online?
Why go to restaurants when you can order out?
Why see family when you can zoom?

I'll tell you what. You go back to congratulating yourself on your perceived superiority -- I mean, your childrens' capacity to play online video games for hours a day is really quite an achievement -- and the rest of us will have a constructive discussion about the challenges posed to other, less video-game-successful students and how to meet them. 
[/quote]

You are insane. My comment was about kids being isolated during DL. No, they are not. [b]My kids[/b][u] are online for hours,  having lots of fun with other kids. That is not the same as being isolated.

Again, you are nuts.[/quote]

Well it's great that all kids are exactly like your kids!
And that physical isolation has zero bearing on social isolation!

Really, congratulations on being willfully ignorant that this poses challenges to other students. After all, if your children are thriving, then it must be other folks' problem if this setup poses any difficultly!

I think that if you stay on this thread long enough, you will probably be able to convince people that what they perceive as challenges are just a result of their own poor choices.

Keep posting!

xoxo

[b]Insane Nuts Esq[/b].[/quote]

You can say that again.

To anyone else reading this who is actually sane and rational -- kids love being online together. [b]DL needs to be fun for them -- just like classroom learning has to be fun. Some teachers suck at it, some make it fun and have the ability to keep kids engaged. IMO, kids need time to bond online.[/b] Most classes seemed to start right off with instruction. I[b] think kids should have the chance to chat, make farting noises, tell jokes, whatever, for five or ten minutes, and also have breaks in the zoom instruction where they can chat with each other. [/b]There is no reason they can't enjoy and look forward to going online with their classmates and teacher all day.[/quote]

I actually agree 100%.

And our family is doing 100% DL and we will be ok.

It's challenging for everyone. There is difficulty. Some can be overcome. Some cannot. I do hope that teachers at every level in every school will recognize that DL needs to be social. For my HS and MS students, teachers in the spring turned off chat in Zoom, limited all online interaction to strictly 100% "academic" content-focused. This is shortsighted and makes a bad situation worse.

And that's really one of the points of difficulty: We're still learning how to make DL social, let alone academic. I hope that everyone will be on the lookout for the opportunities posed by DL even as we are mindful of the challenges. [/quote]

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