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Choosing “learn at home” on CPS’s reopening survey has been *the* easiest part of learning at home.
Remote learning has been an enormous struggle for my kids and family, but I’d choose it any day over the alternative @ChiPubSchools is offering.
Here are 6 of many reasons why...
Remote learning has been an enormous struggle for my kids and family, but I’d choose it any day over the alternative @ChiPubSchools is offering.
Here are 6 of many reasons why...
1. Teachers’ attention will be divided between the kids on a screen and the kids in-person. Instruction will be WORSE for both. It’s hard enough to keep 30 kids from slipping through the cracks when they are all in one place, but under this “plan” teaching will be a HUGE disaster
2. Hybrid pods are anything but small.
There’s the kids your child is exposed to during their two days at school *and* the kids they are exposed to the 3 other days they need childcare. A bubble that big is bound to pop...and when it does, I don’t want my kid in it.
There’s the kids your child is exposed to during their two days at school *and* the kids they are exposed to the 3 other days they need childcare. A bubble that big is bound to pop...and when it does, I don’t want my kid in it.
3. A child with any symptoms goes to a room with all kids who have symptoms. If their didn’t have COVID initially, they will get exposed in the room. Maybe they get a covid test that day & it’s (-) but they’re spreading the virus for 5 days before test shows up (+).
4. A classroom requires the cooperation if 30 kids and THAT requires routine and stability but things will constantly be changing for those remote 3 days and in-person 2 days, not to mention the disruptions that the inevitable quarantines will cause...
5. How about the trauma when their teacher dies? Or their classmate dies? Or someone at home dies because they brought the virus home from school? Are we really ready to gamble with that?
I’m not prepared to even gamble with the non fatal traumas of hospitalization...
I’m not prepared to even gamble with the non fatal traumas of hospitalization...
6. Kids won’t be working collaboratively or sharing materials or sitting together at lunch or sharing secrets or doing any of the things that make for good pedagogy or positive school experiences...
I don’t want to teach my kindergartener that school is a miserable place.
I don’t want to teach my kindergartener that school is a miserable place.
Remote learning is temporary so if my child only learns one thing during this time, I hope he learns that he is safe at home.
