Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere
by Jensson on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:04PM
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> Is there some catalog of how many videos and things are watched during school hours
I remember watching video 4 times in school total. At the time teachers didn't know how to start the video player so a kid always did that, the teachers weren't used to showing videos in class at all.
Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere
by seanmcdirmid on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:45PM
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I remember video weeks at school, it was definitely a thing in the late 80s/early 90s. But then we also had study hall in Mississippi, where you spent one or two periods a day just sitting in a room doing absolutely nothing. The year I left, they wanted to make it mandatory (with the excuse that kids weren't getting enough time to do their homework, but it was really about saving money).
Is there some catalog of how many videos and things are watched during school hours, because I never remember that as a kid. Yes it would have been a VCR rolled out and all that, but if I wanted them to just watch a movie I could do that from home. So weird.