Oh yeah, this is bananas. So many kids are not only not gonna have a school year, but they'll whatever the heck this persecution is (for both them and their parents) adding insult to injury.
Mine haven't gotten their schedule yet, but I assume it's similar. twitter.com/NarangVipin/st
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I am actually sort of not game for doing fake school if it's really not working out. My wife and I have three kids (grade 6 and below), & we're going to each take a hour out (our lunch break basically) to do school-related things during the day. Plus she takes Weds. off...
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...plus we will bring in a tutor at least once a week for a check-in with the kids to find out what they're doing, where they need more help from us, & what we can/should be focusing on.
If all that isn't working, we'll bail on school & officially homeschool.
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And when I say "homeschool" I mean "cobble together something that sort of seems educational & that isn't driving us all insane, & mainly plan to rely on the fact that our kids are all bright & will pretty easily recover from a lost year of schooling."
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As I keep telling my wife when she panics: I went through Louisiana public schools in a not-affluent area, and lemme tell you it was a circus. Then later in life, I went to two of the best schools in the world for my academic specialty! So we're not gonna sweat it too much.
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The middle school I went to was so awful, that I could've just skipped it entirely and stayed home and read books and programmed my Commodore 128 (my passion at the time), and been way better off.
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This is precisely what I'm worried about. We're in a good school & don't want to lose the slots. So we'll put on a show of doing "remote school" vs. hitting eject. Teachers & admins don't want to lose state funds, so they do the same. Meanwhile, suffer. twitter.com/spleenarbitrag
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My fear is that it's going to be a bunch of school kabuki on all sides -- the parents, the teachers, the kids -- for the purpose of maintaining school slots & funding, & that the results will be so bad it would be way better to just let kids read books for a year.
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