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Opening Schools
- Thread starter Salty
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That is what Calif is thinking of doing.
Now, here in NY,school does not let out until June 22 (give or take a couple of days)
In addition, the Dep of Ed has declared that there will be no Regents exams.
The Gov said he will make a decision by Fri of this week
KenH
Well-Known Member
Schools usually finish up here by Memorial Day and open in mid-August.
I'm a retired math teacher, but still part of a school system. What our teachers are doing is distance-learning. Not the best solution - but it's better than doing nothing.
[1] Each teacher had to call all of her students and families to see who had access to technology and who did not.
[2] For students without access to technology, packets were made with work their students could do with parental help and mailed at the cost of the schools. . No, not all students have parental help. Packets were made for three weeks of daily work and in another three weeks, teachers will do the same thing.
[3] For those with technology, assignments were sent to be completed and returned to the teacher in a variety of technological ways.
[4] Our teachers are helping student via technology and zooming with students and home calls with parents. Our teachers are working just as hard as they normally do, plus having to teach their own children.
It's not ideal, but students [most] are excited to skype and zoom with teachers and are, for the most part, doing their assignments.
The only difficulty, obviously, is math. If a parent cannot add/subtract fractions, teaching the child will be impossible. And it's pretty much impossible to teach yourself how to multiply binomials. For science, social studies, reading, and English - lots of reading/writing assignments are given with videos to watch and research to do.
We made the decision to do this because we didn't want students to be so far behind when school comes back.
Some students ARE going to be behind, but teachers will making preparations to take the next year to pull them up.
We do not wish to go to school in the summer nor start on August 1. We want the students to have a normal of a summer as possible.
There are holes in the system, but it's the best we can do right now.
[1] Each teacher had to call all of her students and families to see who had access to technology and who did not.
[2] For students without access to technology, packets were made with work their students could do with parental help and mailed at the cost of the schools. . No, not all students have parental help. Packets were made for three weeks of daily work and in another three weeks, teachers will do the same thing.
[3] For those with technology, assignments were sent to be completed and returned to the teacher in a variety of technological ways.
[4] Our teachers are helping student via technology and zooming with students and home calls with parents. Our teachers are working just as hard as they normally do, plus having to teach their own children.
It's not ideal, but students [most] are excited to skype and zoom with teachers and are, for the most part, doing their assignments.
The only difficulty, obviously, is math. If a parent cannot add/subtract fractions, teaching the child will be impossible. And it's pretty much impossible to teach yourself how to multiply binomials. For science, social studies, reading, and English - lots of reading/writing assignments are given with videos to watch and research to do.
We made the decision to do this because we didn't want students to be so far behind when school comes back.
Some students ARE going to be behind, but teachers will making preparations to take the next year to pull them up.
We do not wish to go to school in the summer nor start on August 1. We want the students to have a normal of a summer as possible.
There are holes in the system, but it's the best we can do right now.
That's similar to what we're doing. The first step was teachers calling to inventory technology. Then packets were prepared for students without technology; for the others teachers posted assignments. Each day I post several announcements, videos, stories or collections of photos to talk about. I have not Zoomed with the students, but I plan to.
The hardest part is trying to keep up with the parents and students. It seems that some have fallen off the face of the earth and don't respond to calls, texts or emails.
The hardest part is trying to keep up with the parents and students. It seems that some have fallen off the face of the earth and don't respond to calls, texts or emails.
timtofly
Well-Known Member
Can you image how this has affected year round learning, in schools who stopped the traditional summer off schedule?
I have a Jr still trying to keep up with classes, and even those with technology, in the last 3 weeks, not having school, have already lost the will to study.
It is a shame that parents left that responsibility to the school system, instead of teaching them from a young age how important an education is. Now the discipline of school has been taking away, so has the will of students. Not saying that some students have not been taught that, but the majority of current education leans in that direction.
I have a Jr still trying to keep up with classes, and even those with technology, in the last 3 weeks, not having school, have already lost the will to study.
It is a shame that parents left that responsibility to the school system, instead of teaching them from a young age how important an education is. Now the discipline of school has been taking away, so has the will of students. Not saying that some students have not been taught that, but the majority of current education leans in that direction.
Some of that is the sudden transition to distance learning, I'm sure. Part of it is dealing with a world that's radically different than the one they knew a few weeks ago.
Schedules are scrambled, dozens of people you're used to seeing almost every day are absent. Activities are curtailed, businesses are closed, thousands and thousands of people have died and everyone is talking about the pandemic.
It's a lot to take in for a young person (or an old person) so it's no wonder that academics may not be topmost in their minds. Maybe social emotional learning is as important as anything right now, and it may be hardest to carry out.
Schedules are scrambled, dozens of people you're used to seeing almost every day are absent. Activities are curtailed, businesses are closed, thousands and thousands of people have died and everyone is talking about the pandemic.
It's a lot to take in for a young person (or an old person) so it's no wonder that academics may not be topmost in their minds. Maybe social emotional learning is as important as anything right now, and it may be hardest to carry out.