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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You can say that again.

To anyone else reading this who is actually sane and rational -- kids love being online together. 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. Most classes seemed to start right off with instruction. I 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. There is no reason they can't enjoy and look forward to going online with their classmates and teacher all day.[/quote]

NP - your experience just isn't the norm, PP.  I have one kid, a rising 4th grader, who can handle being online for hours, but she hates it. She doesn't like the way that group interactions are stifled because Zoom only lets you hear one person at a time, she hates the inability to read nonverbal communications and body language (she didn't use those words, but translated, that's what frustrating), the interactions feel stilted and all the kids get bored easily.  My other kid, a rising 1st grader, just doesn't have the focus to stare at a screen for hours.  It was a struggle to get him to focus for 45 mins.

And while we're assuming our personal anecdotes are the same as data, conversations with other parents have shown me that my experience is much more common than yours.  So, *shrug*[/quote]

Well, my extended friend group, now spread over multiple states and in multiple school districts, has, with very few exceptions, had their children do very well with DL.  Is it as good as in-person?  Of course not.  If we weren't in a pandemic, we wouldn't be doing DL, but we are.

So I guess your "experience" that you fail when trying to extrapolate outside your sphere is, in fact, not more common or more relevant.  Just more meaningless anecdota.  *shrug*[/quote]

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