How is online school going?

[CarolfromTX]

Well, my granddaughter (sixth grade) tells me she is done with all her school work by eleven in the morning. My daughter, the third grade teacher, tells me she has, at most, a couple hours every day with her students, and then attends meetings, , and plans, and makes Google classroom docs, and gets to leave school by five. Her major complaints are that kids are turning in work late, or not at all; parents are doing student's work for them; parents complain they cannot make their children do the work , parents are not reading their emails and responding, and parents want to be spoon fed any information from the teacher. So, yeah, it's going swimmingly.

 

[PopsnTuff]

Well, my granddaughter (sixth grade) tells me she is done with all her school work by eleven in the morning. My daughter, the third grade teacher, tells me she has, at most, a couple hours every day with her students, and then attends meetings, , and plans, and makes Google classroom docs, and gets to leave school by five. Her major complaints are that kids are turning in work late, or not at all; parents are doing student's work for them; parents complain they cannot make their children do the work , parents are not reading their emails and responding, and parents want to be spoon fed any information from the teacher. So, yeah, it's going swimmingly.

Sounds like a real headache for the teachers doing the hybrid teaching....Any reports of virus outbreaks in the classrooms yet?

 

[CarolfromTX]

Hell, yeah, it's a headache. Which pretty much defines teaching in the best of times. But now? Oy! Some of the kids here come back next Thursday, and that's bound to be a different ball of wax. I do not envy teachers nowadays. If I hadn't already retired, I'd retire now.

 

[jujube]

My granddaughter teaches biology and chemistry to high school students on the spectrum. That has not been working well at all. Those are kids who need classroom face-to-face interaction. School is physically back in session but we'll see if it lasts.

 

[Sunny]

The public schools in NY were due to reopen Sept. 10, and the teachers' union threatened to go on strike, and maybe sue the city for not taking adequate safety measures. The city agreed to delay the opening for a week.

From what I gathered from the article, they will give parents the option of all on-line, all personal attendance, or half and half. Can't imagine this being anything other than a mess.

 

[Aunt Bea]

One local school district had a light bulb moment as a result of the new trend in remote learning.

No More Snow Days!!!

 

[Ronni]

My daughter homeschools her kids, so the Covid related lock down of schools hasn’t affected her. But she’s getting a lot of calls and messages from her friends who are now having to supervise their kids while they do the remote learning thing, and most of them are panicked or frantic and desperately seeking help from Paige as an experienced homeschooler as to how to manage schooling under the current circumstances.

My sons girlfriend is a teacher. She posted something on Facebook the other day which made me laugh, but also sympathize.

Do you know how hard it is to lesson plan for a Public Speaking class when everything is online?

The answer is it’s hard. Very hard.

 

[PamfromTx]

Sounds like a real headache for the teachers doing the hybrid teaching....Any reports of virus outbreaks in the classrooms yet?

One niece (teacher) is exhausted already and it's only the beginning of the school year. She is terrified of contracting the virus and taking it home to her two babies.