How are elementary schools going online?

Online isn’t really an option in rural low income areas. Not enough kids have high speed internet connection. Plus, it takes a lot of discipline to do online learning. Do you think most high schoolers and middle schoolers have that kind of discipline? Do you think most of their parents have enough discipline to stay on them to make sure the work gets done?

At my kids' school, every student 3rd grade and above is issued a laptop. Almost all text books and lessons are virtual/online. It isn't that difficult for our area. It isn't seamless though.

They're emailing daily assignments to be completed on IXL.com and such.

My 2nd and 3rd grader have to log in each morning for their daily assignments. 2-3 lesson plans per day. Teachers are making videos teaching the lesson plans. Obviously the communication back and forth via email is not ideal but it’s better than them having nothing done over the next 4+ weeks.

We have a 3rd grader. We did home school yesterday. My Sis-in-law is a 4th grade teacher. She sent us a sample lesson plan for us (while bedside with my Mother in law, who passed yesterday. RIP Maw-Maw).

Our school district sent out an e-mail/mass call last night. Last Friday was our last day in school until at least Mar 27. They said that tomorrow they'll be sending our digital assignments or paper copies to those that don't have reliable internet access. They also said they'd provide digital solutions (tablets and chromebooks) to those who can show need for the time being. They are also setting up wi-fi hot spots for those that need it.

Obviously, they are a very proactive school system.

Same. Since they use Chromebooks and an online portal at school anyway, it is the same exeperience for my kid (4th grade), just at home. Her teacher will be available through email a couple of times a day and through Classtag app. Assignments are expected to be completed within 5 days of school letting back in.

The kids who normally don't take laptops home will be allowed to. The local internet provider is doing free 60 days for any new subscribers. Lower grades are picking up paper packets from the school tomorrow.

Our school district has access to IXL and Zearn, which are two online reinforcement learning platforms.

Every week, they have to complete so many lessons on there.

So, they are just continuing with that. They are also sending home / making available paper packets with stuff.

The reality is, they aren't doing any teaching or anything new... just trying to reinforce previously learned skills to keep the kids from regressinng.

They also aren't making it mandatory, because they know some families don't have internet access, and going to the library isn't a good idea right now.

Same. Google classroom.

I think public schools are mailing it in. Not parochial schools anyway.

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Classroom Dojo, Google Classroom, a couple other sources I'm forgetting. My youngest is receiving and turning in assignments already.

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My wife is a Jr High teacher. She set up (and helped her co-workers) Google Classroom and it's been pretty smooth. She already has kids working on and turning in assignments.

My 3 kids in elementary are doing mainly GC and ClassDojo.

I'm in a mostly rural parish, and Charter and ATT have both offered FREE internet for 2 months for any family that can't afford it.

This won't help the super rural parts we have like the outskirts of Palmetto/Melville/LeBeau but it's a start.

The biggest thing about all this, is that once this is over, this whole exercise is going to prepare us for future events. We are going to be way better off as far as k-12 and internet/online dissemination.

Hopefully this is also the beginning of the end for standardized testing.

My kid is in Jr High (7th grade) in a suburb of DFW, they do 90% of their work on a chrome book at school already.

Bringing it home and working remote will not be much different.

This will most likely be for the remainder of the year