Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine Zooming the classroom in the early grades is at all productive, for anyone. A teacher relative of mine is training to stream her kindergarten class online and already says it will be like herding cats. What a waste of time! Grade schools should not be doing live online class at all.

They should have listserves for kids to communicate as a group. So much easier, and easy to control.

Somebody on DCUM has an idée fixe about listservs, because otherwise I can't imagine why someone would suggest a listserv as a way for kindergartners to communicate as a group.

Yet you think Kindergarteners can handle zoom?

FCPS uses something where the teacher has total control to stop chatting and mute.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine Zooming the classroom in the early grades is at all productive, for anyone. A teacher relative of mine is training to stream her kindergarten class online and already says it will be like herding cats. What a waste of time! Grade schools should not be doing live online class at all.

They should have listserves for kids to communicate as a group. So much easier, and easy to control.

Somebody on DCUM has an idée fixe about listservs, because otherwise I can't imagine why someone would suggest a listserv as a way for kindergartners to communicate as a group.

I would not allow my second grader to join a list serve. Completely inappropriate - she doesn’t even have an email address!. This poster needs to realize it’s a terrible idea and move on already.

OP, you do realize that many of us are also trying to work full-time with our kids in the house, right? And that we can't always request to get off a call based on our kids' Zoom schedule? Come on. Have some empathy here.

Yep. I'm listening to my DD's 2nd grade math class. One kid just interrupted the teacher 2 times because he couldn't find his pencil. The teacher did a good job of basically just ignoring and moving forward.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure mine is 'that kid.' He's 'that kid' when I'm trying to work with him, too. His being 'that kid' is part of the reason he got his ADHD diagnosis and is on meds. But, I still need to do my job, so I still need the teacher to deal with it.

Note that the OP does not appear to be a teacher, just another parent.

It's bad enough that these kids have to endure negative feedback all day long from teachers, peers, etc. Now OP wants other parents to listen in on the classroom and gang up on them. OP: MYOB.

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine Zooming the classroom in the early grades is at all productive, for anyone. A teacher relative of mine is training to stream her kindergarten class online and already says it will be like herding cats. What a waste of time! Grade schools should not be doing live online class at all.

Agree. It’s a HUGE waste of time. I watch them with my first grader and they are useless.

Have the teacher assign the worksheets. Or hand out Eureka workbooks. Apparently they are just photocopying they Math and handing it out at the Food centers.

Anyone that has problems can contact the teacher via phone or email.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers can mute the class so that she is the only voice the kids hear. Everyone's going to be fine. There have been goofy disruptive kids in school since the beginning of time!

I'm sure teachers in the real classroom setting wish they had this mute power!

Teachers can mute the class, but each kid knows how to Unmute themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I’ve seen some of that, but the kids aren’t annoying on purpose, they’re impulsive and/or anxious...

Oh, that is right. We don’t discipline or show accountability. We make excuses and turn it into something that should be tolerated by the masses.

Yep, exactly.

Our teacher is always putting kids on Mute and they just unmute themselves.

We have ES kids holding up inappropriate signs and pictures.

Yes they are being rude, disrespectful and inappropriate. But I guess now parents know how things are on a day to day basis in the classroom.

MCPS doesn’t focus on discipline at all and the kids know they can get away with this behavior without getting in trouble.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I’ve seen some of that, but the kids aren’t annoying on purpose, they’re impulsive and/or anxious...

That's not an excuse to destroy the learning for others.

pathetic post

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure mine is 'that kid.' He's 'that kid' when I'm trying to work with him, too. His being 'that kid' is part of the reason he got his ADHD diagnosis and is on meds. But, I still need to do my job, so I still need the teacher to deal with it.

Yet, you have time to be here posting on DCUM talking about how a teacher needs to deal with your kid? Parent of the Year right here!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine Zooming the classroom in the early grades is at all productive, for anyone. A teacher relative of mine is training to stream her kindergarten class online and already says it will be like herding cats. What a waste of time! Grade schools should not be doing live online class at all.

They should have listserves for kids to communicate as a group. So much easier, and easy to control.

Somebody on DCUM has an idée fixe about listservs, because otherwise I can't imagine why someone would suggest a listserv as a way for kindergartners to communicate as a group.

The teachers can mute the class so that she is the only voice the kids hear. Everyone's going to be fine. There have been goofy disruptive kids in school since the beginning of time!

I'm sure teachers in the real classroom setting wish they had this mute power!

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine Zooming the classroom in the early grades is at all productive, for anyone. A teacher relative of mine is training to stream her kindergarten class online and already says it will be like herding cats. What a waste of time! Grade schools should not be doing live online class at all.

They should have listserves for kids to communicate as a group. So much easier, and easy to control.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure mine is 'that kid.' He's 'that kid' when I'm trying to work with him, too. His being 'that kid' is part of the reason he got his ADHD diagnosis and is on meds. But, I still need to do my job, so I still need the teacher to deal with it.

Note that the OP does not appear to be a teacher, just another parent.