For the first time I was in the same room as my middle daughter and her online class. Physics, an important subject that takes focus and hard work.
I feel bad for the teacher. He struggled to get the class involved. Had little feedback. The whole class felt distant and weak. I don’t even blame the teacher as I felt like he was doing his best under ridiculous circumstances.
This is going to set back a whole generation of students whom will not receive the education they should be getting and we were already behind as a nation with science and math.
THIS IS CHILD ABUSE AND A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO SABOTAGE OUR CHILDREN AND OUR COUNTRY
I’m picking up my other kid today with no mask in violation of their rules. If they don’t give me my child I will make a scene. This is only going to get fixed if good people push back.
Do you part and push back. I don’t care how big or small PUSH BACK.
Your kids were falling behind anyway. They keep changing the metrics so it’s not easily apparent. But Public and even private education is a shadow of what it once was in our parents day and A distant echo of our grandparents day
Homeschooling is the future.
Public school is garbo.
OP, I sympathize and hear what you are saying. I respectfully disagree for the majority of school class subjects. For a few disciplines (Physics is likely one of them), in which the leftists have not infiltrated, the students lose out. For most classes, where more political indoctrination than teaching took place, the students are better off. Most of public education is a cult of leftist ideology. It took a lot of intervention and tutors to rescue my child from the garbage taught in public schools. Even math classes were ruined by teachers using feel good "investigative" text books. What we need are credits and a voucher system to let parents choose the education they think best suited for their child's needs.
You want to know something sad, they are already behind.
I just put my kids into private school. My 1st grader still can't read. He's getting there, he knows his letters, he just lacks confidence. After all, he missed half a year of kindergarten.
We were a little embarrassed when we went to the private school and explained he isn't ready for first grade because he cant read.
They have a special class called "Learning to Read." The teacher said to me, don't worry, it's nothing to be ashamed about. We get kids from first grade and second grade public school ALL THE TIME who still need to be placed in the learning to read class.
Think about that for a bit. Public school failed a long time ago. We are just waking up to it.
Im guilty too. I assumed that the schools were doing their job. I grew up with good teachers and a good system. I expected the same for my kids. Most of us never bothered to examine the school because we just though it would work out.
This video chat meeting style that most schools have initiated isn't the best interface when teaching.
I've suggested to the local school that the teachers create lecture videos (and get creative) and post them along with practice assignments, then go over Q&A with video chat....but what the hell do I know?
The lack of feedback is pretty normal even when normal class was in session however. Sometimes you are lucky and you get a couple of students per class that will engage...but most of the time? Nah; you're going to be the Bingo the dancing chimp, entertaining a jaded audience to no avail, all day long.