Online learning sounds great until you really think about it. I have grandchildren in another school district and their mother had the following conversation with the school board.
Mother: Do you expect my children to sit in front of a computer monitor for seven hours a day?
School board: No. There will be regular breaks for bathroom time, lunch and recess. Your child will only be in front of the computer for about five hours per day.
Mother: But I have three children in three different grades. How is that going to work?
School board: You will have to purchase two additional computers. Each student must have their own computer and monitor.
Mother: But we live in a rural area with questionable broadband service. I doubt that our internet service provider can provide enough bandwidth. And, by the way, what happens to the board's server when all these students log on at the same time? Will your server crash?
School board: We didn't think about that.
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You know students aren’t logging into the school’s network, right? Virtual learning is done through cloud-based third party products so this point isn’t a point at all.
ReplyDeleteDuring the Spanish flu epidemic in 1915 students in Rhode Island attended school full time and nobody got sick. They kept the windows open all the way, even in the middle of winter, but nobody got sick. You can look it up!
ReplyDeleteHogan just said yesterday he has allocated 10million to upgrade or create more accessible broadband to southern, western Maryland and the eastern shore
ReplyDelete10 mill is a drop in the bucket
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ReplyDeleteIf we are using third party cloud based curriculum why do we need to pay teachers this fall?
ReplyDeleteIt is programs the school district buy into using but the teachers still have to upload lessons and grade the work. They are very similar to programs colleges use. It does not automatically spit out lessons magically when students log on. I am guessing you never took an online or hybrid course in college. They take more self discipline than in class learning which I will admit that most young children and teens do not have. Neither do many early college students which is why most colleges in the past did not allow freshmen to take online or hybrid courses because it is harder when done right.
DeleteAlso, for those who have never worked in schools before.....STFU with your judgmental attitudes about teachers! You don't hear us trashing whatever employment you have....unless you are in politics. Many of us WANT to go back to working with the students because it was easier to make sure they completed work correctly and could help them as a group if they didn't understand things. Lord knows most of you bitching never answered your phones when we tried to call you with concerns about your children's progress or lack of.
So once again....STFU bunch of high and mighty AHs!
Who exactly did you speak with. Perhaps you have some names or perhaps this is just more FAKE news.
ReplyDeleteWe live out in the country and in a wooded area and have no access to internet what are we supposed to do quit work and drive them to a free wifi area and sit in a public place 8 hours a day.
ReplyDeleteWill this work as well and filing online for unemployment.
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