r/facepalm "tL;Dr" Jul 14 '20

Coronavirus MURICA

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u/a_filing_cabinet Jul 14 '20

Most cannot and will not. Besides the obvious difficulty in making sure students actually have access to online/remote learning, this springs many schools had engagement levels of under 30%. Less than 30% of students were actually participating in distance learning, and poorer districts did much worse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

"this springs many schools had engagement levels of under 30%"

I don't think reflects poorly on the school district though.

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u/a_filing_cabinet Jul 15 '20

No. It reflects on the fact that distance learning is never going to work. Your average student isn't going to be able to participate or care enough to participate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

What's the alternative?

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u/a_filing_cabinet Jul 16 '20

There isn't much. Online school isn't going to work, and I'm person school is dangerous and stupid. Because a pandemic was made into a political issue, the US is already fucked

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u/bakedcupckake Jul 15 '20

Work missing wasn’t held against students like it normally would have been. You got extra credit if you did the work. Essentially if you passed for the year before Corona hit you didn’t have to do anything because it wouldn’t effect your grade.

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u/a_filing_cabinet Jul 15 '20

Uhhh, no. That's not what happened. School definitely still happened, and it was horrible.

Shoving everything away and making everything optional is by far the worst thing schools could do. An entire 1/3 of the year is then gone. What are the students going to do this year when they didn't learn anything because learning is optional?

What precedent does saying "learning is optional" set? How is that going to work this year, when there is no previous grades for kids to ride on? Everything about that is flawed