Students Left Behind by Remote Learning

Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by qualifiedai on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:04PM (#24645641)

our two kids (elementary school and pre-school) go to a private school in Bay Area and we are very happy now. They have in-person classes with very strict high covid-related guideliness. When they were required to close they offered an excellent online classes and lowered tuition 35%.

On the other hand, a lot of our friends with kids of similar age are super unhappy about their public schools. The quality of education and online classes is very, very low and they can't re-open in person due to class sizes. I now know several families who basically ran away from public schools to either do homeschooling (with other parents) or private school. Very sad situation to watch

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by markdoubleyou on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:54PM (#24646808)

I'm genuinely curious what "excellent online classes" look like, especially for early elementary school. My second grader in Seattle Public Schools isn't learning a thing (except for how to troubleshoot MS Teams).

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by qualifiedai on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:33AM (#24647681)

for pre-K: music - singing songs with her class, also dancing/gymnastics (project to a bigger screen). story-time after lunch.

for kindergarten: actually a lot of classes: art, second language (most kids in school are bi-lingual En+Ru), basic reading and math, also music, dance, gymnastics (again bigger screen helps here).

I would say it was actually pretty good and easy on us (parents) for kindergaten. But, yes, it is still tough for pre-K kid as she needed much more attention from us.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by hnracer on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:20PM (#24645779)

It's just your typical government incompetence, unfortunately.

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