Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not in your area but our cable got turned off while I was out of work and the teacher who assigned online math told DD to do it after school in the computer lab. I told the teacher DD needed to leave by 4pm to be home before dark (it was winter) unless the teacher was willing to stay with her and then accompany her home on the train. She stared at me in shock. DD was excused from the requirement to go Kahn Academy by th he assistant principal.
Maybe The teacher was in shock because, if you were not working at the time, you could have picked up your daughter at school yourself to ensure she was able to get out of school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They aren’t going to send CPS because you have no Internet. You will just get important info by mail not electronically and your kid will not have to do homework that requires Internet.
Not true. They might send home paperwork to see if you qualify for free internet.
OP, this is so dumb. Internet is a utility and the 20 min a day isn't going to do anything to your child. In fact, if you insist on putting them so far behind their peers in their ability to use the technology, you're doing them more harm than 20 min of online learning.
Gorillas can use the internet. It's not putting them far behind. Besides, we have internet - I just want to discourage snow days going virtual!
Anonymous wrote:Because I hate online learning. If everyone did this, do you suppose it will make a difference? Or will they send Child Protective Services out to find out what is wrong with us?
Anonymous wrote:I’m not in your area but our cable got turned off while I was out of work and the teacher who assigned online math told DD to do it after school in the computer lab. I told the teacher DD needed to leave by 4pm to be home before dark (it was winter) unless the teacher was willing to stay with her and then accompany her home on the train. She stared at me in shock. DD was excused from the requirement to go Kahn Academy by th he assistant principal.
Anonymous wrote:Genuinely poor kids sit in parents' cars in parking lots to get wifi for homework. You should be ashamed.
Anonymous wrote:Genuinely poor kids sit in parents' cars in parking lots to get wifi for homework. You should be ashamed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They aren’t going to send CPS because you have no Internet. You will just get important info by mail not electronically and your kid will not have to do homework that requires Internet.
Not true. They might send home paperwork to see if you qualify for free internet.
OP, this is so dumb. Internet is a utility and the 20 min a day isn't going to do anything to your child. In fact, if you insist on putting them so far behind their peers in their ability to use the technology, you're doing them more harm than 20 min of online learning.
Gorillas can use the internet. It's not putting them far behind. Besides, we have internet - I just want to discourage snow days going virtual!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They’ll give you portable internet.
This is exactly what will happen. Expect a call from the school social worker or at least paper work to be sent home within the next few weeks.
+1
Nobody’s going to be “calling CPS,” but you will be wasting the time of the school staff who work to make sure kids have equitable access to learning.
This is so sad to me—I work in very low SES school and we haven’t been able to give hotspots to everyone who needs them since 2021, so we can’t assign anything that requires technology at home. My kids would be ecstatic to have access to our databases after school, and you make a game of it.