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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Concurrent has been working in numerous jurisdictions and private schools - it works well.[/quote]

Which jurisdictions and private schools?  [/quote]

It doesn’t work “well.” The teachers are ragged. They forget the online kids. They spend a lot of time reminding in person kids about masks and distance and handling bathroom requests and whatnot which disrupts instruction for the online kids. They have to finagle ways to try to make in person resemble in person without compromising mitigation. I am a teacher and I know many in multiple states. This is exhausting. We will do it but please don’t be fooled because it happens it happened “well.” [/quote]

Have you experience already doing it or are you guessing about this? Concurrent is working fine at my child’s private school. I fully support teachers, but the claim that concurrent is an awful idea is just not true. Kids in the classroom are socializing and happy to be back.[/quote]

I'm the teacher who wrote the question.  I currently teach concurrent, and I wouldn't say it's working fine.  We've put in an incredible amount of effort to make it not that much worse than virtual was, and maybe for the less than half the kids who chose hybrid, the benefits of socializing at lunch, and childcare make up for the instructional loss. In the classroom there's significantly less socializing than there was when we were all virtual.

I assume that the parents who send their kids for the hybrid think it's working fine, or they wouldn't send their kids.  I have a much clearer picture of their academics though, and the level of socialization in the classroom, and I wouldn't say it's fine.

And we are in a much better place technology wise, and ratio wise than the public schools.  None of my teacher friends in public districts doing concurrent describe it as close to virtual in quality, except for the kids who live in households where adults aren't parenting.  [/quote]

I have been teaching concurrent since the fall in the Arlington diocese.  More than half our kids are in person, with 30% choosing online because a parent or family member has a health condition.  This has not been my experience.  We have the kids socialize and talk, from a distance.  The online kids are included in this through large monitors that are in the classroom (public schools might not have the ability).  There is tremendously more socialization now because we can do activities as a group.  It is far more interactive.  The kids in classroom are doing better academically then my virtual kids for the most part, so I have to make sure my virtual kids are getting it and ask more questions.  We are assessing them currently with standardized testing.  We will know more if there is an education gap between the two groups or if we have fallen nationwide.[/quote]

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