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I am not blaming them exactly. Its a though situation for all involved and at least my kids teachers are clearly working as hard as they can to make this work a
by zarkov99 7y ago
I am not blaming them exactly. Its a though situation for all involved and at least my kids teachers are clearly working as hard as they can to make this work and the school district has provided laptops and written materials to the relatively few kids that do not have access to those. Having said that, I do think they could do much better if they accepted that this situation will last indefinitely and their methods must change to rely more on parent supervision and kid autonomy.
- eitally 7y agoYou would think that, and they might also think that, but they're largely not allowed to behave materially differently than they are accustomed to. fwiw, until our district settled on a specific set of policies, one of my kids' teachers had already -- the first week of WFH -- setup Google Classroom, used Classdojo to communicate with parents, shared a weekly agenda with links for augmentation material, and setup Zoom meetings 3 days/wk to teach & help the class. she's had to scale back some of this because it's against policy. My other kid's teacher was absent the first two week and, since the district's policy has clarified, is following it to the letter. Thankfully, a stay-at-home dad in the class has created a class email alias, is organizing multiple online sessions per week with parent led code.org, drawing, art history, music history, daily math check-ins, and informal "recesses" (social hours). You may or may not be surprised how few parents are qualified to supervised their kids' learning.
- zarkov99 7y agoHow are they not allowed to behave differently in these times? At least in my district there is a huge variance in how the teachers are handling it so it seems they have a fair bit of latitute.