I just have to talk to my daughter teaching HS to know how much of a fail the home school experiment was. A full third of her students didn't turn in any assignments during the entire 4th term. She reached out to all of them and their parents via email. Too many to call them all individually and also continue teaching those who continued to participate.
But there isn't enough self-motivation among the kids and there isn't enough oversight from parents for home schooling to work the way it was run to end the year. It will be interesting to see what they come up with to begin in August.
My wife tells me the only thing they know for certain is that they won't be assigning students lockers, because admin says it puts them all in too close proximity. Some teachers are ready to just try a return to normal, others don't feel it's safe. The school district is talking about requiring teachers to wear face masks - and there are teachers saying that if they do, they will leave before trying to teach a classroom full of kids while wearing a mask all day. Whatever is decided - some folks are going to be happy and others will be upset.
But there isn't enough self-motivation among the kids and there isn't enough oversight from parents for home schooling to work the way it was run to end the year. It will be interesting to see what they come up with to begin in August.
My wife tells me the only thing they know for certain is that they won't be assigning students lockers, because admin says it puts them all in too close proximity. Some teachers are ready to just try a return to normal, others don't feel it's safe. The school district is talking about requiring teachers to wear face masks - and there are teachers saying that if they do, they will leave before trying to teach a classroom full of kids while wearing a mask all day. Whatever is decided - some folks are going to be happy and others will be upset.
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