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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is insightful.  Maybe it explains the massive disconnect from parents. Parents with generally attentive and enthusiastic students think this is tolerable til it is safer. Parents of disruptive , in attentive students think it’s a disaster.l and worth the risks. Insightful. But doesn’t change the fact that teachers have no say at all and have the greatest risks.  Can we wait til March to bring them back for goodness sake.  At least the ones in middle and high who will be exposed to 50+ kids per day in hybrid. [/quote]

Yes but a) the districts can no longer withstand public pressure to open and b) have decided lack of data = proof it’s safe and c) the parents struggling most with the kinds of kids I mentioned are loud, persistent, and antagonistic. And they are being heard. And are causing so much ruckus the entire system is bowing to their wants and tantrums to hush them up and just give them what they want to be quiet ... kinda like... their kids... tend to do... in their classes. [/quote]

Word.  Couldn’t have said it any better. They are the parents of THOSE kids.  [/quote]

Yep. There’s a reason they didn’t go to private schools, and it’s not financial.[/quote]

Ha ha.  My thoughts exactly.  I just posted this in another thread:

I think it’s the parents of the behavior problem kids who are going crazy right now about the need to open up schools.  As a teacher, what I like best about DL is that I don’t have to deal with those kinds of disruptions.  I can give more time to the quiet students who are TOO well behaved to demand or seek out help, and so are usually deprived of attention.   I am seeing some students flourish in DL and it is heartening.

To me, the big problem with classrooms these days is that a good 10 percent of children have serious behavior problems that no one (including myself) knows how to manage or deal with.  The solution for most of us (including their OpenFCPS parents) its avoidance.  Try to get them out of the classroom when they have tantrums or bully and harass other children.  (Schools these days don’t make that easy because administrators and librarians are trying to avoid the problem, too — they will refuse to “shelter” to the misbehaving exile, and will send him right back to the classroom).

I am really sympathetic to the parents of these children.  I don’t assume that it’s their fault that their kids are difficult, but if they can’t handle their children for a full workday, then chances are, other people can’t either.   If school weren’t  the scotch tape holding so many social programs together on a shoestring budget, it could be an institution that would employ behavioral experts who could work out disciplinary plans and routines to be followed By all the adults who supervise him.  Unfortunately, schools and classrooms are overcrowded and teachers are responsible for too many children at once to do this.  
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Oh, it is the same thread.  I’m an idiot.  Sorry for the double post.[/quote]
At least you’re self-aware.[/quote]

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