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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are allowing the child to choose doing other things vs. school. Sit down and help with the assignments and not allow it to be an option.[/quote] I do this. It’s not working. Do you currently have a five year old? [/quote] :lol: I have one too (well, just turned 6 but in K), and am having a similar experience. Fall was ok but January has been a downhill slide. We've been trying to make him attend every class and do every assignment, but can't sit next to him and redirect and threaten consequences all day, which is what he needs at this point. We are running out of reward ideas, it's the month after Christmas and it's a pandemic so we cant go a lot of places or see a lot of people. I have no ideas for you, OP, but we are very much not hearing things like "just skip assignments" or "leave after morning meeting" as being acceptable from our school. We skipped ONE math app activity because the app was down the week it was assigned and we were too busy fighting over the next week's work to do makeup, and he apparently completely ignored his art teacher's instructions yesterday to draw Transformers instead, which I'm not even sure is worth forcing. So much of this feels like it's more about compliance than learning. Our district is planning to start hybrid Feb 16, and we're debating whether to keep him signed up because even 2 days a week in person would probably help, vs move him to DL because we are nowhere near the metrics from Aug-Oct and the teacher's association came out against it. It sucks so much that this falls on parents to try to be ethical for their own kids and the community at once when the school system is making such arbitrary seeming decisions.[/quote] This sums it up so well. DL isn’t working for this age group at all, but this seems like the worst possible time to reopen. I’m so frustrated that they could not find a way to do *some* in person school in the fall, when cases were low, which I think would make it easier to keep the kids home now. Plus they could have figured out some things about logistics. I’ve been advocating for some form of outdoor school (with masks) since last summer, but there is no will to make this happen. It doesn’t help of course that Trump and Congress refused to allocate funds to schools to help make it happen. It’s an awful situation. I was reading an argument from a teachers advocate yesterday saying it’s not fair to heap all the risk of this situation on teachers, and I agree with that. But they were also saying that instead of in person school , we should be looking for ways to improve DL, to provide mental health services to families, even money to parents who are supervising DL to compensate due list wages and time. The problem is that NONE of that is happening. So while I think it’s unfair to shift the burden onto teachers who feel it is not safe, it is also unfair that families have carried the burden on their own this entire time. I still can’t believe what working parents have been asked to perform over the last year. I feel broken. I’m not trying to put teachers in danger. But I need help, and it’s not coming.[/quote] Our private school has been open all year. Not a single case reported. The issue is most certainly the teachers and the union.[/quote] With no weekly testing, easy to say that and pretend. [/quote] PP here. All I know is my kids are in school, none of the teachers have been out sick, and things are fine. Weekly testing or not, we are in a much better situation than the public schools. Enrollment at our school is up significantly. [/quote] Its not just about teachers getting sick. That is not the issue. And, you cannot say everything is fine and the issue is the union but that shows you are really self-absorbed. Its about community spread. Schools are closed to reduce the community spread. Kids go to school, get it, bring it home and share. A responsible school would insist on weekly testing.[/quote] Sorry not sorry, grandma and grandpa can stay home. [/quote] No, selfish mommy. Your kids can stay home. They Drumpf MT get to be spreaders for "socialization." Sorry not sorry.[/quote] Not PP, but she is right in many ways. Covid is for kids not a big deal (yes yes there are a few exceptions... just like with the flu) so why should they be the ones at home while grandma and grandpa can go to a restaurant? It’s a horrible situation all around, but if we could isolate only those over 60 and with pre-existing conditions, the others could live a more normal life (with masks, social distance, etc). Why should children (and their parents) pay the price when they are not going to be a burden on the system? It’s unfair... grandma and grandpa stay at home and grandkids go to school[/quote] Actually it can be a big deal for kids. And, those who live with kids.[/quote] Only 100 kids have died of Covid. Let’s stop pretending that everyone is concerned about kids. If they were, kids would be in school. Kids don’t have lobbyists like old folks do. The vast majority of deaths are from those over 65 years old. There are always going to be outliers like the odd 30 year old with preexisting conditions dying, but we need to look at majority. We prioritize middle aged and older people going out to bars, restaurants, and concerts than we do kids going to school. We live in a shitty system that thrives on consumption. Kids going to school doesn’t help the economy, so we put education on the back burner in favor of throwing children in front of a screen for 6 hours a day and we call that “school”. It’s not school. It’s the last worst option that highlights how little we prioritize learning. [/quote] Most of the kids that have died have been Black and Brown. Agree schools are not prioritized right now, but let's not dismiss the BIPOC kids who have died from this who will continue to bear the brunt of this.[/quote]
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