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[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]

This is such a false generalization, you obviously are not engaging in good faith here.

If you want an obvious counter example, take a child with inattentive ADHD.  Not disruptive to the class, not taking away from teaching time, just needs the occasional nudge to get back on task when the teacher can see the child’s mind is wandering.  That’s a lot harder to detect through distance learning so that child, while still not being disruptive, checks out on an entire lesson without the teacher realizing it and misses all of the content.  That chicks isn’t learning effectively during distance learning.

Not that I expect you to care, because you seem to have little concern for students with special needs.  Or English language learners.  Or minority students.  All groups that are seeing disproportionate learning loss during distance learning.  Your child is doing fine and you could continue with distance learning for the rest of the year regardless of what other students do.  But you still don’t want anyone else to have something different, no matter how much they may need it.[/quote]

I'm one of the PPs whose children are doing well with distance learning. One of mine does have inattentive ADHD. She's doing really well because she can see everything posted online in an orderly fashion, can pace herself, and isn't as easily distracted. She's able to go back over material she either missed or didn't understand during asynchronous days. I mentioned this during our parent teacher conference and the teacher said she and her colleagues are hearing the same thing from a lot of other parents whose children have the same diagnosis.

Our school is almost 50% ESL/minority students and those parents overwhelmingly selected distance learning. Learning loss seems pretty harmless when compared to an illness that could emotionally and financially devastate your immediate and extended family. [/quote]

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