07-11-2020, 02:49 PM
After weeks of silence, our school board has announced they've bought into some kind of virtual classroom package and that it's optional. "We're offering this because of significantly reduced registrations." Gee, ya think?
We are not the kind of parents who confuse school with babysitting, so we are intensely interested in this option.
Trouble is, the district has almost no details of consequence to share and we're only a few weeks out from when school is starting. So I'd like to know what you've heard from your area.
-> Our oldest would be starting his senior year. He's a straight-A, honors student who already has about 6 hours of college credit courses taken last year as self-study online. But guess what? The state of TN can't say if any honors courses he'd do online for the school would be considered as "honors" courses when taken online through their own curriculum.
We're considering not registering him for school at all, and have him take the GED and then just start applying to colleges.
-> Our youngest is just starting high school (9th grade). She's on the basketball team, a hard-earned achievement. The district is saying that anyone who chooses the virtual option cannot participant in ANY extra-curricular activates. No sports, no clubs, zero. They're basically pariahs. It's effing stupid.
Meanwhile, the bball team still isn't practicing. They tried it a few times this summer until some random kid elsewhere got C19. A few days ago one of the assistant coaches said the gym was open in case anyone wanted to do some shooting. Optional, not mandatory. 4 kids showed up. The head coach sent an angry message to the team about the weak participation? It was optional! That earned him an email from my wife, which I haven't read yet because I'm not in the mood to turn that into a blistering email.
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We want them in-class, for all the positive reasons students benefit from the in-class environment, educationally and socially. But the district has zero plan for how to do that this year, safely. But hey, they hold their own board meetings sitting more than 6-ft apart. Nice for them, but not for the kids who I guess are assumed to be immune to sickness and transmission.
And if one of them comes home from school and gets the rest of sick that would be ... not good. I'm already stressed about it since I'm the primary earner here.
We are not the kind of parents who confuse school with babysitting, so we are intensely interested in this option.
Trouble is, the district has almost no details of consequence to share and we're only a few weeks out from when school is starting. So I'd like to know what you've heard from your area.
-> Our oldest would be starting his senior year. He's a straight-A, honors student who already has about 6 hours of college credit courses taken last year as self-study online. But guess what? The state of TN can't say if any honors courses he'd do online for the school would be considered as "honors" courses when taken online through their own curriculum.
We're considering not registering him for school at all, and have him take the GED and then just start applying to colleges.
-> Our youngest is just starting high school (9th grade). She's on the basketball team, a hard-earned achievement. The district is saying that anyone who chooses the virtual option cannot participant in ANY extra-curricular activates. No sports, no clubs, zero. They're basically pariahs. It's effing stupid.
Meanwhile, the bball team still isn't practicing. They tried it a few times this summer until some random kid elsewhere got C19. A few days ago one of the assistant coaches said the gym was open in case anyone wanted to do some shooting. Optional, not mandatory. 4 kids showed up. The head coach sent an angry message to the team about the weak participation? It was optional! That earned him an email from my wife, which I haven't read yet because I'm not in the mood to turn that into a blistering email.
************
We want them in-class, for all the positive reasons students benefit from the in-class environment, educationally and socially. But the district has zero plan for how to do that this year, safely. But hey, they hold their own board meetings sitting more than 6-ft apart. Nice for them, but not for the kids who I guess are assumed to be immune to sickness and transmission.
And if one of them comes home from school and gets the rest of sick that would be ... not good. I'm already stressed about it since I'm the primary earner here.