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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the main issue with this schedule is the principal was trying to duplicate virtually what happens in an ES classroom during the day, instead of re-imagine what a virtual classroom could and should look like. Kids in the ES classroom are working in groups, moving around, doing stations, conferring with the teacher, socializing, etc. This schedule keeps the bare-bones nature of the direct instruction in the modern classroom, but just deletes all the other stuff without trying to do something new and different to replace it. [/quote]

It's online school what do you expect? They just cut all the fluff out and leave what is necessary in. There's no replacing the human component for kids this young. [/quote]

I expected 100% virtual school experience with 2.5 hours of direct instructional time with a teacher. Why do you think a completely bare-bones education is OK? Why not just fire all the teachers and give kids logins for ELA and math I-ready programs? [/quote]

I am telling you that the schedule basically mirrors what happens in a school day with the fluff taken out. Anyone who thinks they're gonna get all these extra virtual learning hours where the teacher is lecturing for the entire time in DL is misguided. It could possibly happen at the HS level because the classes are leveled. In a GENERAL education ES classroom, there are kids of varying levels of abilities. That's why there is an emphasis on "small groups." Small groups instruction is the reason why the ES schedule looks the way it does. [/quote]

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