Doesn’t this speak more to you as a teacher? Our kids have been back 4days a week and love it. My 3rd grader has a friend in hybrid and is encouraging her to come back to school. Sounds like you’re not doing a great job engaging with the students in front of you.

Many schools are now running out of hybrid room because so many DL kids have switched over.

Anonymous wrote:We also have to realize the real facts here. These kids have had over an entire YEAR of hardly attending school, being out of routine, having tons of freedom during their day to eat, snack, do school from their bedroom, ignore their teachers, etc etc. Of course some kids may prefer to stay home. But it's certainly not what's best for them.

I’m a teacher who is hybrid and the difference in my in person kids and at home kids is striking. The ones who came in are doing infinitely better. Sadly, this split has caused a strange mindset shift in the kids at home. Even my chatty, active classes are WAY down in online participation. It’s like now that some kids are in school, the ones at home have this idea that that is “real” school and online isn’t. They’re opening fewer assignments, participating less in chat. It makes me so sad and I keep reminding them they have to stay engaged, we have one more quarter. But it’s almost like seeing us engage with the kids in person and knowing they’re not there too is creating this sort of torpor. Like they can’t stay locked in the way they did when we were all online and in it together. I hate this. I don’t know how to fix it either.

My kids in person are making up work, getting much more help from me because they will actually ask questions in person vs sitting there confused or tuned out but not speaking up and being off camera so I can’t even know. I can see them, find them in study hall to give them make up assignments, check on them, talk to them. The difference is night and day. I hear parents’ concern about their kids going back and I used to share it as well but then I saw the profound impact coming back had on some kids. I really think they should all be back. I would go so far as to actively discourage families from choosing DL unless medically necessary. Your kid may think they like it now but the reality is, in person is the standard. Even good DL can’t compete.

We also have to realize the real facts here. These kids have had over an entire YEAR of hardly attending school, being out of routine, having tons of freedom during their day to eat, snack, do school from their bedroom, ignore their teachers, etc etc. Of course some kids may prefer to stay home. But it's certainly not what's best for them.

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Anonymous wrote:I am asking my students if they are happy with coming to school 4 days a week they said NO
The 4 students in Block 1 said NO.


They can't even play or have any fun in PE CLASS.
I will keep asking them and keep you guys updated.

Perhaps you should focus on making school more interesting for your students. This doesn’t reflect well on your teaching.

FYI student took a summative and the class average was 89%

Oh come on. I’m a teacher too. The summative could be 4 questions about putting a period at the end of a sentence. You can defend yourself of course but that’s a weak example.

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Anonymous wrote:I am asking my students if they are happy with coming to school 4 days a week they said NO
The 4 students in Block 1 said NO.


They can't even play or have any fun in PE CLASS.
I will keep asking them and keep you guys updated.

Perhaps you should focus on making school more interesting for your students. This doesn’t reflect well on your teaching.

FYI student took a summative and the class average was 89%

Hybrid has been a pretty smashing success. That is the only explanation for the fact that most schools' hybrid numbers are going way up as students request to switch.

Anonymous wrote:I am asking my students if they are happy with coming to school 4 days a week they said NO
The 4 students in Block 1 said NO.


They can't even play or have any fun in PE CLASS.
I will keep asking them and keep you guys updated.

Perhaps you should focus on making school more interesting for your students. This doesn’t reflect well on your teaching.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am asking my students if they are happy with coming to school 4 days a week they said NO
The 4 students in Block 1 said NO.


They can't even play or have any fun in PE CLASS.
I will keep asking them and keep you guys updated.

I don't think I'd be too happy to spend more time in a classroom with a teacher focused on mommy boards.

However many of my sons friends who picked DL are not scrambling for exceptions to switch to HL. Maybe your kids just don't like you?

its also DADDY boards.

No it isn’t. Not officially. Have a second look at the name of the website.

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Anonymous wrote:My 7th grader is thrilled. This means more of her friends will be there and both of her PE days will be live and in person.

they are allowed to play games in PE not just sit there?

Yes, but my son's PE had so few kids the teacher ended up letting them play games on chromebook.

Just heard today of more secondary kids approved for hybrid.

Yeah I literally don’t know anyone who doesn’t like being back at school (who actually have gone, not counting those who chose DL) and a bunch of people I know are desperately trying to get their DL kids into hybrid now that they’ve heard how much other kids like it, and now the 4 days part.

LOL. My 7th grader and 5th grader keep asking me what the start date is for four days a week. They can't wait. I guess I should be grateful that limitations on PE activities is not the determining factor for them?

ANECDOTES!!!

Wow 4 whole kids huh. Lol . My students are all happy and so are my kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the PE comment. Maybe this is different from school to school? My son is definitely playing games in PE. He also got an exception and goes 4xs a week. His friends are all trying to scramble to get in now that it's being moved to 4 days

My kids (teacher) are just sitting there doing anything when they do have PE, other days FLE, but on the days they have PE they just sit there do nothing, that what the kids tell me.

This is basically what my kid described when everyone was virtual. Or thinks like hiking in place in their bedroom while watching a video of someone hiking. Seriously. But now that she is in person those days are much better.

how many of them were "hiking in place" since the videos are not required to be on?

Hopefully none because it’s just stupid. My DD read novels or did other schoolwork, and periodically she would have a “medical appointment” during virtual PE. She enjoys in-person PE.