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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal children are fine. I'm a teacher and I used ALL of the free websites that were free at that time.  IXL was free, brainpop was free, Epic! Reading-free, soooo many resources were out there.

I find that parents would like to use the excuse of the lockdown for everything-lack of social skills, inability to read, do math, or regulate their emotions.

Something I share with all of my peers-you can't rely on the school to do it all.  [b]You've got to take some initiative to extend the learning at home-educational board games, puzzles, books, cooking, watching documentaries.  [/b]Public, and even private schools are trying to disseminate a bunch of information to many students at a time.  You've got to make it personal to help it stick.

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Yes but extended learning is completely different than teaching an entire school year ourselves. We rely on schools for formal teaching and that didn’t happen for at least a goddamn year, so kindly shut it. There was nothing to extend. Parents had to work while their kid went to virtual school. Half the day was wasted troubleshooting when the computer froze or the audio went out. It was a complete sh*tshow.[/quote]

Come on, after a month in it wasn’t that bad. [b]No they didn’t get exactly a full year of teaching, but it wasn’t zero: stop being dramatic.[/b] There’s plenty of wasted time during the normal school day that didn’t happen during online learning. Assemblies, patrol meetings, field trips, fire drills, extra trips to visit other classrooms to see their wax museums etc. Chat time before the bell rings, etc. They don’t get 6-7 hours of actual learning every day. No school has that.

One of my kids wasn’t engaged, and that was hard because dh and  I were working too, but that doesn’t mean the teachers weren’t teaching and trying their best. There WAS education happening, whether or not your kid accessed it is a different story. It was a WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC. Why are you still grousing about what didn’t happen instead of focusing on moving forward and remediating what happened with your kids. Enough with the blaming. These kids weren’t bombed in Israel/Gaza. Their houses weren’t flattened in a hurricane like Katrina. They were home and had to study online. If this pandemic happened in the 1980s, we would have lost a lot more education. [/quote]
This really varied.  I can tell you that my kid got nothing from virtual learning.  They let the teachers in the grade combine zoom classes so they could take turns teaching.  This put my kid in virtual classes of 45-60 2nd graders.  Absolutely nothing was taught.  It was endless "Jake, please turn on your camera.  JAKE....Jake...Jake...  Henry please come back.  You need to be in your seat.  Henry.... Henry... Henry.... Okay, so today we're going to.... Sarah, please put down the scissors.  Do not cut your hair.  Sarah.  Sarah...put down the scissors.  That's not safe.  Please put the scissors down. 
That's not safe near your eyes.   Please everyone go on mute while I call Sarah's adult.  [Hold for 10 minutes]. Okay, is everyone here?  We need everyone back to their screen.  Is everyone back?  I'm missing at least 20 kids.  Can everyone come back now please."  It was absolutely miserable and nothing was learned.

I ended up supplementing so my kid was mostly okay academically, but I know parents of kids with LD or ADHD who had a really, really hard time.  Their kids would resist extra work and virtual school was a complete waste of time.[/quote]

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