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It was certainly true for us that Covid allowed us as parents to see into our children’s daily class lives. Some of it was good, much of it…was not.
by Scubabear68 3y ago
It was certainly true for us that Covid allowed us as parents to see into our children’s daily class lives. Some of it was good, much of it…was not.
- BeefWellington 3y agoWell, they got a view but I'm not convinced how accurate it was given the sudden thrust of new circumstances on everyone.
- chongli 3y agoI think the point is what students are being taught, not how. Covid may have radically disrupted the classroom dynamics and strained the hell out of daily lesson planning but I’m pretty sure it didn’t rewrite the history textbooks.
- blueflow 3y agoBut parents have been to school as well (as kids), they should already know? Or did some major things change since then?
- Scubabear68 3y agoVisiting the school once in a while is not the same as seeing daily class activity.
- blowski 3y agoI think they're saying "parents also went to school once".
- spunker540 3y agoI agree, most parents are only 15 years out from their own schooling. Some of the teachers may even be the same. (I know a lot changes in 15 years, but I’m not aware of any major shifts in education).
- shinjitsu 3y agoMy parents were public school teachers for decades. When our oldest son was getting to be school aged they recommended that we homeschool because as they said "It is nothing like when you went to school". When I met an old high school classmate who is a public school teacher in the district we both live in (300 miles away from where we grew up), she also said something similar.
- ok123456 3y agoYes, there have been substantial changes in the classroom in the past 30 years, and none of them have been helpful. This is especially true in large public schools that have to be "stack ranked" using NCLB-mandated test scores. This zapped any residual ability for them to do anything beyond the bare minimum because that would eat into time that could be used to review the tested material. Your 12th grader in "honors" classes will be given remedial lessons on how to use a Dictionary instead of reading Chaucer.
- explorigin 3y agoThis. Public school has to be catered to the bell curve. How much of that bell curve is covered depends on the budget of the school and how flat the bell curve is based on other factors. Because of this, much of school is repetitious, boring and unnecessary. Classroom management amounts to "babysitting" according to my teacher friend. Homeschool kids can learn in 30/min per day what public school kids take all day to learn. Then they have more time to play or develop healthy interests. Yes, the lack "kid-tracking" creates more room for abuse and brainwashing. That problem can be answered in ways that don't require kids to sit in a windowless room for 6 hours a day.
- blantonl 3y agoOr you could just devote your parental time and effort to supporting your children in the educational environment that 95% of the rest of the world participates in and ios available to them in society, so they learn the value of succeeding in a challenging environment vs sheltering them from the real world. Challenging environment might be public school, private school, whatever.
- Whoppertime 3y agoKids who are in the bottom 20% of public schools would just be better off being schooled at home
- voisin 3y ago> learn the value of succeeding in a challenging environment vs sheltering them from the real world. School is supposed to serve our kids, not act as an elaborate hazing ritual.