07-12-2020, 10:30 AM
I posted this on the other side and on a friends FB post. I can't see this whole school reopening being anything other than a massive shitshow.
There is no option for virtual learning. Really. Its something that schools have made up in the last month or two. Hardly a good structure to base an education on. There are some online resources in place sure. But they're JUST resources. Like the LMS. Plus everyone uses different ones or none at all. And different teachers use it differently. Which means different usefulness to students.
There's no money for virtual learning. Again. I've said this before. We are the exception. Not the rule. At least in my 13 yr old's school. She has access to a phone. A tablet. A laptop. High-speed internet. She is an only child. So no sharing. My wife works at home. We literally have the perfect storm for her to flourish with online schooling (minus the whole social thing). But that's not the case with many of her close friends and certainly not for the rest of her schoolmates.
Which leads me to money. We have "stuff". Most families don't. Daughter's school in 6th grade, everyone had laptops they could take home. 7th grade (last year) some dipshit forgot to fill out the grant paperwork, so they had to make do with the leftovers from the prior year. But like I said, my daughter had a laptop already so we were not impacted. It has been and still is a sad state of affairs when teachers have to pay for their charges supplies. My GOD this infuriates me to no end. They make next to no money and then have to use that supply their students?!?!? What in the actual fuck is that??? Requiring cleaning and sanitation supplies but not supplying them? That just seems like a bridge too far.
And literally NONE of this has even addressed the virus. Do any of these fucksticks get the irony of them having a zoom meeting to discuss how we need to send our children back to school in person? This virus has been around for what? half a year? I'm no scientist but how in the hell are supposed to have data on what will or won't happen over time? We're just guessing here. But we're guessing with our kid's lives. I asked my girl how she would feel if she went back to school and one of her teachers caught it and died. Or one of her friends. Is one ok? Two? How many can we sacrifice so that we can move on with pretending like this virus doesn't exist?
S H I T S H O W.
There is no option for virtual learning. Really. Its something that schools have made up in the last month or two. Hardly a good structure to base an education on. There are some online resources in place sure. But they're JUST resources. Like the LMS. Plus everyone uses different ones or none at all. And different teachers use it differently. Which means different usefulness to students.
There's no money for virtual learning. Again. I've said this before. We are the exception. Not the rule. At least in my 13 yr old's school. She has access to a phone. A tablet. A laptop. High-speed internet. She is an only child. So no sharing. My wife works at home. We literally have the perfect storm for her to flourish with online schooling (minus the whole social thing). But that's not the case with many of her close friends and certainly not for the rest of her schoolmates.
Which leads me to money. We have "stuff". Most families don't. Daughter's school in 6th grade, everyone had laptops they could take home. 7th grade (last year) some dipshit forgot to fill out the grant paperwork, so they had to make do with the leftovers from the prior year. But like I said, my daughter had a laptop already so we were not impacted. It has been and still is a sad state of affairs when teachers have to pay for their charges supplies. My GOD this infuriates me to no end. They make next to no money and then have to use that supply their students?!?!? What in the actual fuck is that??? Requiring cleaning and sanitation supplies but not supplying them? That just seems like a bridge too far.
And literally NONE of this has even addressed the virus. Do any of these fucksticks get the irony of them having a zoom meeting to discuss how we need to send our children back to school in person? This virus has been around for what? half a year? I'm no scientist but how in the hell are supposed to have data on what will or won't happen over time? We're just guessing here. But we're guessing with our kid's lives. I asked my girl how she would feel if she went back to school and one of her teachers caught it and died. Or one of her friends. Is one ok? Two? How many can we sacrifice so that we can move on with pretending like this virus doesn't exist?
S H I T S H O W.