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Anonymous wrote:
When I moved to a different country at 12, my mother didn't enroll me in school immediately and I spent a couple of months visiting my new city and pottering around.

It didn't harm me one little bit. I jumped a grade level, actually.


My teen is focused on his AP exams. My elementary schooler is focused on his instrument practice.

Whatever you decide to do with your kids is the RIGHT thing to do.

The problem is PP that most people have no concept of the child's mind. They also are led to believe
that the 180 days of schools are somehow cut in stone and send form Heaven and if there will be God forbid
any variation then the brains would start melting.

Did you ever see what is happening on a snow day? There is pure panic and people are already wondering
how to supplement, how to extend a school year and all that.

Because whatever a kid will learn in 180 days makes huge difference as opposed to what a kid will learn in
175 days.

Then again come to think of it, schools really teaches the methods and the thinking and the learning if anything
and in two years kids do not have a clue what they were covering two years earlier and they can learn and re-learn
anything anytime really, that is the power and the magic of a brain.

Anonymous wrote:
When I moved to a different country at 12, my mother didn't enroll me in school immediately and I spent a couple of months visiting my new city and pottering around.

It didn't harm me one little bit. I jumped a grade level, actually.


My teen is focused on his AP exams. My elementary schooler is focused on his instrument practice.

Whatever you decide to do with your kids is the RIGHT thing to do.

Anonymous wrote:No wonder kids learn nothing in school today. Their parents are actively teaching them to despise their teachers and to handle their emotions in two weeks of wallowing with Netflix, nary a math problem in sight. This is the ideal time to read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry.

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Anonymous wrote:No wonder kids learn nothing in school today. Their parents are actively teaching them to despise their teachers and to handle their emotions in two weeks of wallowing with Netflix, nary a math problem in sight. This is the ideal time to read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry.

Netflix has a lot of historical, science, and political science documentaries. Nothing fundamentally wrong with screens. It’s how you use them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder kids learn nothing in school today. Their parents are actively teaching them to despise their teachers and to handle their emotions in two weeks of wallowing with Netflix, nary a math problem in sight. This is the ideal time to read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry.

What school district are you in where they are reading good books, studying grammar, and memorizing poetry? I will maybe spot you "writing stories". This might happen once a quarter.

All the rest I need to take care of at home, and now I have more time to do it.

read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry

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Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

Exactly wrong. I’m teaching my kids that work done at a high price and with little reward is not good, effective work. I trust they’ll end up high earners like me, because they will know how to allocate their time.

This online thing is less important to me than focusing on character and citizenship, so that’s where I’m putting my time, not as an interpreter for teachers and their various web based resources.

What? A high price and with little reward? Do you think schoolwork generally has a 'reward?'

You're a loon.

NP but I do. Schoolwork usually provides knowledge and skills, which are their own reward. Distance learning doesn’t (or hasn’t yet).

For some kids, distance learning provides structure and camaraderie.

Anonymous wrote:No wonder kids learn nothing in school today. Their parents are actively teaching them to despise their teachers and to handle their emotions in two weeks of wallowing with Netflix, nary a math problem in sight. This is the ideal time to read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry.

Anonymous wrote:No wonder kids learn nothing in school today. Their parents are actively teaching them to despise their teachers and to handle their emotions in two weeks of wallowing with Netflix, nary a math problem in sight. This is the ideal time to read good books, study grammar, write stories and memorize poetry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

Exactly wrong. I’m teaching my kids that work done at a high price and with little reward is not good, effective work. I trust they’ll end up high earners like me, because they will know how to allocate their time.

This online thing is less important to me than focusing on character and citizenship, so that’s where I’m putting my time, not as an interpreter for teachers and their various web based resources.

What? A high price and with little reward? Do you think schoolwork generally has a 'reward?'

You're a loon.

NP but I do. Schoolwork usually provides knowledge and skills, which are their own reward. Distance learning doesn’t (or hasn’t yet).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

I'm a teacher and I think it is fine to skip distance learning, at least for elementary school students. No need to make a big fuss about it with your kids. Just don't do it.

our elementary is taking attendance.

In order to do what?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

Exactly wrong. I’m teaching my kids that work done at a high price and with little reward is not good, effective work. I trust they’ll end up high earners like me, because they will know how to allocate their time.

This online thing is less important to me than focusing on character and citizenship, so that’s where I’m putting my time, not as an interpreter for teachers and their various web based resources.

What? A high price and with little reward? Do you think schoolwork generally has a 'reward?'

You're a loon.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

I'm a teacher and I think it is fine to skip distance learning, at least for elementary school students. No need to make a big fuss about it with your kids. Just don't do it.

our elementary is taking attendance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sends a message to your kids that teachers work isn’t important and school isn’t mandatory. Rude.

I'm a teacher and I think it is fine to skip distance learning, at least for elementary school students. No need to make a big fuss about it with your kids. Just don't do it.