Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 15:04     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Anonymous wrote:Not all pods or even all pods who hire a nanny and likely not pods that rotate with parents in charge. BUT if you are paying someone to teach, then you aren't completely relying on the materials/teaching the school provides. If, as we all suspect, that materiel/teaching isn't very good, you aren't going to advocate as hard or as urgently for better because your kids will be getting what they need. Even if you don't hire a teacher but someone who helps the kids do their DL work, you won't demand that the activities are more clear or include enough support because you won't know. So your child's classmates who can't afford pods are then left to do this advocacy work themselves and make the demands themselves.

There is strength in numbers - stay and fight for the best DL for all.


I dispute your premise. You seem to assume materials and teaching won’t be good and you have zero basis for that.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 15:00     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Anonymous wrote:Sorry no, I don't think it serves anyone to give my children a poor quality education. Is that what you mean by "stay and fight"?


No, the opposite. You aren't happy with the poor quality education your school is offering everyone so you bring it up to with the teacher, take it up the chain to the principal, get the PTA involved. Contact the chancellor. Someone at my school would get the WASH post involved. But not if they've mostly checked into pods and their kids are learning just fine.

I get people are tired. But think of how tired parents with fewer means are - don't leave all this work for them.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:59     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Did it ever cross your mind that hiring some childcare to manage the DL would free up my time for this kind of advocacy?

Just join an advocacy group and stop hassling people. All we want is an adequate education and 30 seconds of peace and quiet to do our jobs. The jobs that fund the taxes and donations that pay for what you want. See?
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:59     Subject: Re:How pods hurt poor kids
There is no way to make this even, OP. Even if we just rotate parents we have a PhD chemist, an engineer, a lawyer, an English professor and an accountant as parents in our two family pod. We can cover a ton of subject matter without hiring anyone.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:58     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
OP, if you are so concerned about pods hurting poor kids, then do something about it. I assume you have research and documented data supporting your theory.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:56     Subject: Re:How pods hurt poor kids
Anonymous wrote:IMO the subject line should be: distance learning disproportionately hurts poor kids.


Yup, I could see this coming back on March. Families with means would develop co-ops and poor kids would get left behind.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:53     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
I'm sorry I'm not sacrificing my kids for your politics.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:53     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Anonymous wrote:It isn’t just being able to afford a pod, it’s having parents to drive you to/from a pod (or the ability to host) and lots of other things, too


Yes, the social capital needed to have a pod is exactly the kind of social capital needed to advocate for better DL with your principal. Please spend it to help everyone.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:53     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Sorry no, I don't think it serves anyone to give my children a poor quality education. Is that what you mean by "stay and fight"?
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:52     Subject: Re:How pods hurt poor kids
IMO the subject line should be: distance learning disproportionately hurts poor kids.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:52     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
We all want better quality DL, but you obsessing about it here is not going to make it happen. Why don't you work with an existing advocacy group?
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:51     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
It isn’t just being able to afford a pod, it’s having parents to drive you to/from a pod (or the ability to host) and lots of other things, too
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:48     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Thank you OP.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:47     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
I’ve tried to round up support to fight for better DL. Most parents seem totally numb. I think we are to tired to fight.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2020 14:42     Subject: How pods hurt poor kids
Not all pods or even all pods who hire a nanny and likely not pods that rotate with parents in charge. BUT if you are paying someone to teach, then you aren't completely relying on the materials/teaching the school provides. If, as we all suspect, that materiel/teaching isn't very good, you aren't going to advocate as hard or as urgently for better because your kids will be getting what they need. Even if you don't hire a teacher but someone who helps the kids do their DL work, you won't demand that the activities are more clear or include enough support because you won't know. So your child's classmates who can't afford pods are then left to do this advocacy work themselves and make the demands themselves.

There is strength in numbers - stay and fight for the best DL for all.