Gabrielle and Ethan Archibald take school classes virtually as schools go back online to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in Ramsey, New Jersey, U.S. September 11, 2020. Kimberlee Bradshaw Archibald/Handout via REUTERS
The new school year had held promise of some return to normalcy for American families since the pandemic upended daily life and made much of the spring semester unproductive. But the spread of the coronavirus over the summer set off a national debate over whether to resume in-classroom instruction. Her children, 4-year-old Gabrielle and 8-year-old Ethan, who has Down’s syndrome, need lots of supervision. This week, while her husband was away, she paced between the rooms where Ethan and Gabrielle were taking separate classes while on a conference call for work.
“You can see the stress and the frustration on him,” she said. “And he’s never been a kid who’s worried about school.” “Teachers are definitely settling into it as something that is not a temporary Band-aid until we can get back to the building, but it’s something that needs to accomplish the same goals as regular school,” he said.Some students with emotional and learning disabilities seem to be performing better at home, without classroom distractions, said Nicole Daly, a high school special education teacher in Chicago.
everything is hard when it is a new thing.
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Learning can be fun and kids do well when it is. The real test will be how well they make it through the boring and difficult parts. They'll need lots of parental encouragement.
It's exhausting for teachers too. This is Trump's fault. Had he acted in Jan-Feb when he knew the threat, had he not lied to us, we could be in school right now.
ReopeningSchools OpenUpAmerica So how long do we have to pretend there's a deadly virus around....?
We Bangladeshi people are facing this from July.
Not only exhausting, the children are not engaged and distracted.
It's exhausting... and completely unnecessary. Anders Tegnell and Sweden has shown the way. Lockdowns and closures are the results of authoritarians operating outside of their constitutional limits. Evidence shows lockdowns are baseless.
it is hard...I message my grand-kids every few hours with something stupid to make them laugh seems to ease tensions....when your kids get frustrated...play TWIST AGAIN for a break and giggles
Teacher unions are doing their best to ruin education and make families miserable.
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All because we had no leader
So far our remote learning has been great and our district was prepared. Our kids are engaged and learning.
bye bye NEA
The same people shouting against opening schools?
So many problems here that any time missed is an excused absence. The first day of school had at least 5000 help desk calls
Children should be back in the classroom! The American Academy of Pediatrics supports kids going back to real school. This is way too much computer exposure for their developing nervous systems.
My grandson and his friends are doing just fine virtually. I suppose different schools use different systems to teach.
How is it exhausting? I work from home full time with 3 kids home full time, and it’s fine. You just do what you have to do—stick your kids at a desk with their work—and get over it. Regular school would be great though.
Talk to a teacher for your next piece. The amount of work they have with unrealistic expectations and exposure bc of political rhetoric has already killed 3. We love our jobs and our kids but we live our life more
realDonaldTrump has failed our families and children. It’s a national disgrace of historic proportions. My kids are missing a year of school (plus half of last year) to this cluster fuck, and it definitely shows. So, so sad.
If only BetsyDeVosED provided leadership in these difficult times
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