Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:19     Subject: Re:What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
You are missing the problem of special needs kids who require special services to be able to participate in classroom instruction.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:18     Subject: Re:What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:School is boring enough for most MS and HS students as it is. In-person there are more stimuli and fewer choices. Plus there is peer pressure and teacher-pressure to tune in. So much harder at home, so much harder alone.


Why are they alone? Don't most parents make their kids go to school? How is this any different?


They are alone because their parents are...wait for it...working. The entire point is that parents cannot be home schooling, they have jobs.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:17     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP DL can work ok for HS and middle school, but it doesn't work for ES at all. The younger the kid, the more quickly they tune out, need redirection and engagement, socialization and physical help. What you are describing sounds ok for 16 year olds - and even then it will still not work well.


Even the kindergartners at our W feeder can easily handle DL instruction. Most of them are advanced readers and doing multiplication at 5.


Ha. I assume you are being facetious.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:16     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
For HS, should run the periods 1-7 every single day, just like in-person. Teachers Zoom all periods they are assigned, ON TIME.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:16     Subject: Re:What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Anonymous wrote:School is boring enough for most MS and HS students as it is. In-person there are more stimuli and fewer choices. Plus there is peer pressure and teacher-pressure to tune in. So much harder at home, so much harder alone.


Why are they alone? Don't most parents make their kids go to school? How is this any different?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:15     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
I agree. If kids can spend hours on screens then I don't see why the schools can't come up with a system kids can easily use. I think having a regular school day schedule makes sense. Why break it up just because they're at home?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:15     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Anonymous wrote:OP DL can work ok for HS and middle school, but it doesn't work for ES at all. The younger the kid, the more quickly they tune out, need redirection and engagement, socialization and physical help. What you are describing sounds ok for 16 year olds - and even then it will still not work well.


Even the kindergartners at our W feeder can easily handle DL instruction. Most of them are advanced readers and doing multiplication at 5.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:14     Subject: Re:What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
School is boring enough for most MS and HS students as it is. In-person there are more stimuli and fewer choices. Plus there is peer pressure and teacher-pressure to tune in. So much harder at home, so much harder alone.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:14     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Anonymous wrote:OP DL can work ok for HS and middle school, but it doesn't work for ES at all. The younger the kid, the more quickly they tune out, need redirection and engagement, socialization and physical help. What you are describing sounds ok for 16 year olds - and even then it will still not work well.


Similarly, younger kids can't be expected to safely social distance at school either. So the lesser of the two evils is the one that doesn't risk their lives.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:13     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
No reason to make teachers going to a school building to live stream the classes. They can do that from home.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:13     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
For equity issues no one can be required to attend a HS class at a particular time.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:09     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
OP DL can work ok for HS and middle school, but it doesn't work for ES at all. The younger the kid, the more quickly they tune out, need redirection and engagement, socialization and physical help. What you are describing sounds ok for 16 year olds - and even then it will still not work well.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:07     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
You think a K class is run like a freshman lecture class at a state university. That’s the problem.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:06     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Did your kid do DL in the spring OP?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 11:05     Subject: What am I missing about the difficulty of distance learning?
Why can't they just have the teachers in the classrooms with a camera live streaming the classes? It would just be like a regular class except students would be at home.
The kids could then cycle through each of their 8 periods each day.