Anonymous wrote:All you complaining shrews can form a pod. The rest of us can get on with making the most of this situation without you. God, that would be nice.....

It's stating facts, not complaining. It is simply a fact that distance learning is going to be a disaster. To pretend otherwise is just wishful and blind thinking.

All you complaining shrews can form a pod. The rest of us can get on with making the most of this situation without you. God, that would be nice.....

It's going to be a disaster and it's delusional to think otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher with PGCPS and also a parent. My child will NOT be sitting at a computer all day. He will be doing the bare minimum. My expectation as a parent is to see what the new attendance policy will be like for a student to be considered marked absent. As a teacher, I will do all that I can do but if a student isn’t live, who cares! Do the work and get it to me when you can. I will mark them present...

This is what I'm interested in too. I am seriously considering homeschooling. It's not what i wanted for my kid for kindergarten, but neither is DL.

I think a maximum of 3 hours live group instruction should be the limit for young kids.
Remaining time should be individual tutoring; extremely small group (2 or 3 students); or individual non computer based work like reading or handwriting, or free journal writing.

I mean, to state the obvious, most kids aren't thrilled to be in school on a regular basis, either. So what. It's their job as kids. They just have to do it. But then, with parents who whine and complain non-stop, I guess your kids are the same.....

You can bring kids to the screens...

I am a teacher with PGCPS and also a parent. My child will NOT be sitting at a computer all day. He will be doing the bare minimum. My expectation as a parent is to see what the new attendance policy will be like for a student to be considered marked absent. As a teacher, I will do all that I can do but if a student isn’t live, who cares! Do the work and get it to me when you can. I will mark them present...

OP, my district is PGCPS and we are supposed to provide a full day of live instruction, is what i have been told. Parents especially want their children to have a live classroom with instruction from, for example, 8:15 AM to 2:45 with a break for lunch. That is also how we prove that we teachers are actually working -- if we log on and are teaching live lessons, no one can accuse us of taking it easy. So I get it.

But I think it will be a horrible time for the children!

I will say I'll be happy not to have to chase down kids. In the spring, I posted lessons and hosted Zoom meetings but if kids didn't show up, I had to keep calling and following through, reassigning assignments and so on.

With all day live lessons, if kids show up, they show up and do the work. If not, it's marked "absent".

Anonymous wrote:I was just listening to our principal's (recording) q&a and apparently, the schedule will be in blocks with breaks. And they will take attendance for each segment... THANK GOD my child is in E.S and I don't give 2 figs if she "attends" online p.e (????) or these type of specials.

She will have to attend Math, L&A, social studies and science. Anything else only if she wants... We have other things to do as well.

I am with you, except my son can also skip social studies and science. Not that much of a loss tbh. He can watch a show or read a book and will learn more than sitting in on a zoom call with 30 other kids.

I was just listening to our principal's (recording) q&a and apparently, the schedule will be in blocks with breaks. And they will take attendance for each segment... THANK GOD my child is in E.S and I don't give 2 figs if she "attends" online p.e (????) or these type of specials.

She will have to attend Math, L&A, social studies and science. Anything else only if she wants... We have other things to do as well.

I’m 48. I sit in Xoom meetings for 5-6 hrs a day. By the end of the day I’m exhausted. I have no energy to do the work that came out of those meetings. But this is what we’re asking children to do. It’s crazy.

+1

What makes me mad is the hypocrisy of it all.
Daycares and camps are open but schools are not.
Nobody cares about closing the achievement gap anymore.
Nobody tells working parents what to do, god forbid you are “privileged” and can work from home, you are especially screwed.
The already low quality art and music lessons are going to be a total failure online.
I have some hope for math and writing but not much.
PE and any physical activity is on parents.
What a joke.

OMG. I just saw sample schedules for k-12 in our school district. Never mind if you have one adult who can stay home full time what do parents do with multiple young kids?! And then my eyes glazed over when I saw how long the screen time would be. Although I worked from home a few times a week before the pandemic, I’d be so burnt out I’d I had to follow 5 plus hours of online learning daily. Our country is so screwed.