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> People with kids will tell you how well "internet education" went the last 2 years We had a bunch of school districts with little to no experience running di

> People with kids will tell you how well "internet education" went the last 2 years We had a bunch of school districts with little to no experience running distance education, with a vested interest in return-to-classroom, all attempt to implement an online curriculum practically overnight. I don't consider it fair to consider that "online learning" or an earnest attempt at a successful home schooling curriculum. To drive that point home, a family I know in Washington State had two kids in the school district during that disaster. The school district shifted a tone of responsibility onto parents and kids. The parents were fed up and switched to a for-profit homeschool program. Their kids are still home schooled - they never went back to the school district after COVID ended.

juve1996 4y ago
The problems aren't technology related. No amount of curriculum change will make a parent be able to WFH forever or provide enough attention for their child because they're too busy putting food on their table and working to the only metric that matters above all else for their outcomes: money. > To drive that point home, a family I know in Washington State had two kids in the school district during that disaster. The school district shifted a tone of responsibility onto parents and kids. The parents were fed up and switched to a for-profit homeschool program. Their kids are still home schooled - they never went back to the school district after COVID ended. Yea, we get it, some people can afford homeschooling and have time to do it. That doesn't scale nationwide.
- r3trohack3r 4y ago
  > Yea, we get it, some people can afford homeschooling and have time to do it. That doesn't scale nationwide. I think you're cutting exactly to the core of it. We conflate child sitting with education and end up with a bad version of both.

juve1996 4y ago

The problems aren't technology related. No amount of curriculum change will make a parent be able to WFH forever or provide enough attention for their child because they're too busy putting food on their table and working to the only metric that matters above all else for their outcomes: money. > To drive that point home, a family I know in Washington State had two kids in the school district during that disaster. The school district shifted a tone of responsibility onto parents and kids. The parents were fed up and switched to a for-profit homeschool program. Their kids are still home schooled - they never went back to the school district after COVID ended. Yea, we get it, some people can afford homeschooling and have time to do it. That doesn't scale nationwide.

r3trohack3r 4y ago
> Yea, we get it, some people can afford homeschooling and have time to do it. That doesn't scale nationwide. I think you're cutting exactly to the core of it. We conflate child sitting with education and end up with a bad version of both.