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Anonymous wrote:Our district gives out hotspots. The library does too. If you can’t log on at all ever with your free device and hotspot....

Look, if the SAHM upthread who presumably has the time and ability to help her kid thought it was teachers'/school's job to do it, then what do we expect from busy WOTH families many of whom also don't know/understand the school system well.

"But kids don't have enough internet."
"Kids in our district have hotspots."
"Did I say internet? Hold on. Let me think of the next excuse."

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Anonymous wrote:in Montgomery County they were also given hot spots.

So, a parent or caregiver should be rushing to a hot spot, despite they may have other children and a job of their own?

Not everyone has a car. Or the ability to leave their house for hours at a time to assist their child in learning at a remote location.

While yes, school isn’t childcare, the reality is for many families, It is.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, at least 25% of kids never study, never do their homework, never tried to keep up with school even in-person school. This is no surprise.

But this doesn't fit the Open The Buildings Now agenda...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our district gives out hotspots. The library does too. If you can’t log on at all ever with your free device and hotspot....

Look, if the SAHM upthread who presumably has the time and ability to help her kid thought it was teachers'/school's job to do it, then what do we expect from busy WOTH families many of whom also don't know/understand the school system well.

Anonymous wrote:OP, at least 25% of kids never study, never do their homework, never tried to keep up with school even in-person school. This is no surprise.

Anonymous wrote:OP, at least 25% of kids never study, never do their homework, never tried to keep up with school even in-person school. This is no surprise.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS / Teachers Union bagmen (virtually all of DCUM) will give you a million reasons why it's not a problem that 1/4 of kids aren't being educated.

The district did all it could! Do you know what a hot spot is? If those kids are not logging in, screw 'em. Your whining about the importance of education shows how stupid you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Low cost is $10 for comcast and $20 verizon. That said, previous PP is being obtuse. Even with internet and laptop there's a lot more that goes into DL. Mainly, a supportive parent who is able to assist with computers, in English.

And for a lot of families on the south side of Chicago, even that is too expensive.

Yep. If you can’t afford food, the Internet is the least of your worries.

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprised! I’m a stay at home mom with a high HHI and I thought I was supervising my third grader but then I got an email saying that he hadn’t logged in to his afternoon math class for a whole damn week.

A lot of it was his straight-up lying about what they were doing, but a big part was he didn’t know where to go or when. He didn’t understand how to find the links for all the different rooms he was supposed to be in and he tried to set timers and reminders but sometimes the sound was off. This stuff is hard for little kids and I think the teachers expect too much or them in terms of keeping track of time and knowing how to navigate canvas to find the next class or small group.

Now he is doing great because I am with him all the time and listening to when asynchronous time ends and he doesn’t use his headphones anymore. If I had to work I’m pretty sure he would just repeat 3rd grade. I get why we are doing it but there’s no question it’s a disaster.

lol same thing here! once we set alarms and the teachers (finally) sent a unified daily schedule of links, it worked much better. but still a disaster - he logs in but does maybe 25% of the work.

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Anonymous wrote:yep, I know a family that moved during covid and couldn't get their acts together to enroll their kid in school until October--they didn't have the right proof of residency, couldn't fill out forms, don't have a printer, etc. And then they didn't have internet and since they owed comcast money from their old place they didn't qualify for low cost. And then when the school helped them with a hotspot and a laptop the mom still can't get herself up in the morning to help the kid log in, let alone any actual help with the subject matter. Poverty, mental illness, learning disabilities, and a lot more going on...and I think there are kids in a lot worse situations than this. Schools are going to have to do a lot of remediation.

All of this.

I work with a high SES population and can report that childcare and mental health are a huge barrier to getting kids online and keeping them there. I see parents working full time who have left their ADHD elementary school-aged children to log on by themselves. Those kids never arrive on time, and sometimes they don’t show up at all. It’s the equivalent of walking into a child’s bedroom at 6:30 a.m., saying “Don’t miss the bus,” and then deciding that’s all you need to do to get your kid to school on time. I also see a lot of kids who are “present” online but not mentally present. They turn off their cameras to game, they take three breaks per class period, and/or they wander off for ten minutes at a time. No teacher can reach through the screen and bring them back. If even 10 percent of the students do this each class period, a teacher has a dozen follow-up communications that should be made to families before the end of the day. Unfortunately a lot of those families ignore communication from school (if they haven’t outright blocked school email addresses and phone numbers).