Why would there be a 2-hour delay if school is virtual? Do people have to like get up and scoop the snow off their computer? Maybe wait until the computer plow has come by?
Can someone explain this to me?
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Why would there be a 2-hour delay if school is virtual? Do people have to like get up and scoop the snow off their computer? Maybe wait until the computer plow has come by?
terbear1225
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I don't know about Charles county but some school systems make the teachers teach their virtual classes from their physical classrooms.
Grumpy
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I thought most of the teachers were doing the virtual teaching from their schools, so the delay was for the teacher's benefit???
kom526
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This is correct. LW is in her school everyday because her other option of teaching from home would mean bringing a large portion of her classroom into our home. That ain't happening, not on my watch.
That explains it! Thanks!
LightRoasted
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Ahhhh. Now I get it. It's only the students that have to maintain school materials at their homes, have a set aside space, and the parents have to pay for cable, if not extra, for bandwidth, while teachers do nothing extraordinary and pay nothing extra. Check.
My sister-the-middle-school-teacher has had more than enough of the continual 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week, dealing with the hybrid classroom crap and trying desparately to avoid letting her kids down . If she was not so close to retirement she would have quit already.
SamSpade
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The schools have made it clear they are perfectly willing to supply any equipment needed for anyone who needs it. Heck, for my son we practically had to beg them to stop offering.
That said, it's still a considerable amount of work coordinating the equipment at the school.
My niece and her husband are both HS teachers over on the Eastern Shore. In addition to the above, they also have to ensure THEIR two children are attending virtual classes and each day is a juggling act. They are both fed up with the lunacy and are about burnt out. He is getting another degree and getting out of teaching ASAP and she may follow suit.
kom526
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I have no room for a 60" Promethean board and if you think that teachers do not maintain school materials at home, or pay anything extra then you are sadly mistaken. I would say that OJT for getting the curriculum out across several different platforms without ANY instruction from the illustrious leaders on Moakley St is indeed extraordinary. You may know a lot of stuff about a lot of things but this little section here is clearly outside your strike zone.
kom526
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LW has 3 more years until retirement and there is a reason our oldest went to a private high school and our youngest will too.
SamSpade
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I think what is frustrating at least one of my kids is - not everything is in one basket, so to speak. They have to remember which link goes to which subject and which assignments and what stuff is done asynchrnoously and totally outside the classroom - and sometimes, there's several of those for one subject. They have to keep abreast of all of them just to be current - and there are no reminders.
My son's is pretty easy. He goes to his schedule on a chart and clicks his class. When it's over, he goes back to the chart and it tells him when his next one is.
Overall - they aren't learning as well as they would in a classroom. Worse, they don't want to.
My son's is pretty easy. He goes to his schedule on a chart and clicks his class. When it's over, he goes back to the chart and it tells him when his next one is.
Overall - they aren't learning as well as they would in a classroom. Worse, they don't want to.
Good for her! They are both in their 30s so retirement is a long way away.
kom526
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And every night and weekend she is (most are) hunched over the crappy ass Dell laptop that is 5 years out of date trying to place all the links, upload all the assignments, and re arrange the backgrounds for each subject area. It might be easier with middle/high schoolers and 1 teacher : 1 subject but the primary grades are a whole different ball of wax.
I agree they are NOT learning as well as they would in the classroom. The most important thing they are not learning is socialization skills. This generation of school aged kids are going to be seriously hampered as they get older by missing out on this part of their lives.
BOP
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terbear1225
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gonna assume someone I have blocked said something asinine and derogatory about teachers. Glad I have whoever it is blocked and don't have to read the idiocy.
Great! Now only retards will be teachers and we'll be Idiocracy! Yay!
Seriously, I don't blame them. WTF would want to be a teacher or a cop in this day and age?