GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Remote learning for young kids is like one step away from child abuse. There are literally millions of kids that will NEVER recover because of it.
Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic
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Remote learning for young kids is like one step away from child abuse. There are literally millions of kids that will NEVER recover because of it.
Yapdatfool
Superstar
Sat in a parent teacher conference and a teacher said the same thing... and not only do I agree I'd take it a step further and say technology is clearly wasted on them too.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Ppl don't realize that for the tens of millions of kids with bullshyt ass parents, it is only bc school is mandatory that many kids even attend. A year of remote learning where many never logged on and then that short period of time.when ppl had a choice and many of those same kids chose remote bc it meant they didn't even have to go. Now they're so behind that schools don't know what to do. They are in this weird limbo. And I guarantee.many will just never go back. We're talking kids in middle school who may not even go to high school bc they've had almost 2 years of just hanging out. A fukking disaster.
Half measures are exactly why this pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. So kids can run around school infected with no concern for the faculty?
At some point, there's gonna be a monster variant with a higher death rate and it's gonna be like a nuclear bomb going off.
It's really hard for me to understand why people can't grasp that this virus is world altering.
Imagine if some terrorist group unleashes a bioweapon that makes COVID look like a cold. This world is completely unprepared for that scenario.
What is our health system gonna look like a year from now? Three years? These people are already completely burned out with many of them leaving for other sectors.
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Really jumping the shark
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
New York reports a record number of coronavirus cases for one day.
hopefully it's because more people are getting tested
all the urgent cares and testing sites have been jammed packed lately
hopefully it's because more people are getting tested
all the urgent cares and testing sites have been jammed packed lately
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
It really is that bad though...my son's teacher admitted that school this year has been almost entirely small group learning and teaching because all the kids are at completely different academic levels so they've thrown the normal curriculums out because their focus is to get all the students to the appropriate grade level in basic competencies like reading, comprehension and math. That will ultimately hurt all of the kids because the ones who are behind are under pressure to grasp a year to two years worth of competencies while kids who are at the appropriate level are being inadequately prepared for their next grade level.
You can only fault parents who full out neglected their children's education because most parents are not equipped to work full time as well as be supplemental teachers. Also, kids had no experience learning in a remote environment, especially the young ones, teaching in your foundational years is done in a very collective and participation type of manner. Technology issues and environment distractions make that style of teaching fairly impossible in a remote format. Not to mention the schools who attempted to do hybrid learning where they alternate groups of children on a physical and remote schedule, forcing teachers to maintain multiple curriculums and attempt to juggle sufficient attention to those physically present and those online.
During the pandemic I was very much for remote learning for my kids because it was convenient and safer but after going through the struggles of the first half of a full school year back in school with a new 4th grader and high school freshman - I've seen first hand the damage that was done to this generation's educational background and what that could potentially mean for the future.
We're doing a full 180, we'll be sending our kids to school as much as possible during this time as its taken this long to get back into the regular habits of behavior, school work, personal responsibility and routine. And not surprising but my kids are in full agreeance with that. They hated remote learning and returning to the normal social aspect of school has greatly improved their attitudes and effort.
The only silver lining that I can see coming out of pandemic remote learning is a full revamp of standardized testing or school potentially doing away with them all together.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Exactly. Especially what you mentioned re: the difference between the kids that were OK during remote vs those that back tracked. On a larger scale you saw that many more well off kids who went to private/religious schools were always in person. This created an even larger divide along those lines. An absolute fukking disaster.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Breh, it's pretty well established by now that as long as kids are masked etc you're probably safer in the school than out and about. Not to mention vaccines are widely available and vaccinated are not dying. We have to react to the situation at hand, not the worst case scenario you can imagine.
There's still a tremendous amount of children younger than 18 who have not been vaccinated.
Those kids interact with other people. It's not just about them. I'm not going back and forth on this.
