Teachers report spring school reopenings were unproductive.

[Json]

There is no institutional solution. American culture doesn't value education, so kids generally don't.
Kids are nearly constantly digesting a culture that glorifies people who made it without education (athletes, artists, social media personalities, etc.), and is explicitly telling them that school is bad.


https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1180739.pdf

I mean there are other factors.

The article says mostly teens didn’t come back. Younger kids are more engaged by ritual and strict oversight. A lot of high school in America is repetition and self determination.

We have kids worried about school shooters and bullying not having to deal with it. Whatever structure is in the family home is probably a solid groundwork for who doesn’t want to go back. If it’s a strain getting kids to school pre pandemic it’s probably even worse in the mist of.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Whoever forced these kids back in the classrooms, without their consent, is basically doing Lucifer's job.

Where did that happen? The whole point of the article was that kids were deciding whether they went or not. At least in Cali and in my sister's kids' schools they still had a choice all the way to the end of the school year.

The problem they're highlighting is that's really tough for teachers to do both in-class and virtual simultaneously.

It's there you must've scrolled past it.

Should they have kept schools open for in person learning throughout the pandemic?

I'm still confused by your question. Government, teachers, and a large # of families all wanted to shut down the schools. So shutting them down was inevitable. The issue was how to bring them back effectively when different stakeholders had very different needs, and I don't see any easy answers.

I think the country needs to do more to address the home lives of children and their families. It's hard to learn when they're dealing with abuse, food insecurity, housing insecurity, mental health issues, access to internet, and the list goes on and on. Another issue is the funding mechanisms for schools and education/wealth disparity. In NY they're finally going to try and address it with the recent budget(it still falls short I think)but more needs to happen at the federal level.

The blame largely lays in the federal/state governments/boards of education and finally superintendents. I've gotta admit that it really bothers me that teachers are singled out for the faults of people above them and that they've wrongly become the face of what's wrong with education in this country and particularly during the pandemic. I wasn't having a go at you btw just musing that this country never feels far off from rounding up teachers and scientists.

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[DJ Paul's Arm]

Yeah, I've argued for 9am start times in the schools I've had a hand in, to no avail.

One of my schools started at 7:30am and those first period kids were fukking zombies just sitting there silently. 2nd/3rd/4th period were okay and then by 5th period shyt was getting out of hand cause kids were too amped up from sitting and listening all day and just wanted to be active and get out of there. The modern school day is very poorly designed.

man I remember clowning my classmates that had P.E. 1st period. Wake up early to get to school by 7:30am and get ready to run the mile.