"Remote Learning" (What does it look like for your kids?)

Some kids like to learn, and education is a great thing. It can’t hurt to give kids a little educational activities to do since they’re likely going to be home for 5 months with not much else to do.

It's 7:17 and my son is done for the day. I checked his work and it's correct.

He's doing the assignments sent by his teachers all on his on. If he is keeping up with the material and he's only using a half hour a day what's up with the other 7.5 hours.

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I have a kid with an A average so really what is the point of doing anything?

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Seriously?

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Our state's own idiot version of JBE already tipped his hand that they aren't going back this year. And then I look at the crap the schools are putting up and their "message for the day" is a complete waste of time and data.

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Maybe take a more proactive role in your child’s education and provide them with more information than the bare minimum? Ya know, maybe take some responsibility and be an actual parent

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have a kid with an A average so really what is the point of doing anything?

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You don’t understand the point of being a good parent and helping to continue your kid’s education for the semester they’re missing?

Do you ever take an active roll in your kid’s learning?

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On the other end it's not like the stupid kids (who were likely too lazy to do the work while in school) are going to suddenly decide to put their time in online.

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Hopefully some of those “stupid” kids are hard workers who just need a little help and with some good parental involvement they end up lapping your kid in life.

School from 9 am to 2 pm
Exercise

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Our state's own idiot version of JBE already tipped his hand that they aren't going back this year

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If you give teachers an opportunity to not work they're going to take it every time. Even if this thing were scaling down they would be howling about how it is unsafe for the kids to return. There's no financial disincentive for them staying at home, so why push to go back for a 7-8 hour day when you can work from home for 3-4 hours?

That aside, for my first grader all they really do is an online version of homework. She's a good student and enjoys learning, so she's done with everything usually within an hour. I think for older kids it's more involved, but I'm not sure how much so it could be.

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A student’s grade cannot go down during these Remote Learning Days.

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I understand that. While I'm sure it benefits the bad students who otherwise would have remained bad students FAR more than the good students, I'm not sure how much you can penalize kids for something over which they had no control (school abruptly ending)

Teachers are only teaching my kids 20-30 minutes because they have to grade papers, lesson plans for next year, etc

They do assignments on google classroom and use their apps and games. None of it is required and we are not stressing over it. They do educational things roughly 2 to 3 hours a day...

He's in private school so it's a really expensive baby sitter. To add to that my wife is a stay at home mom. I'm pretty sure if I weren't here they'd argue 24/7 though.