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Post by gs11rmb on Sept 24, 2020 8:16:30 GMT -5
My 8 yo is getting bullied by new kids that have joined our private school because we are going in person and most of the public schools are closed. I'm a little confused. Your daughter is getting bullied because she's going to in-person school?
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Post by wvugurl26 on Sept 24, 2020 8:19:26 GMT -5
I took it to mean she was getting bullied by new kids. The new kids moved to their school because they are going in person and the public schools are not.
Around here several people have done the same.
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Post by lurkyloo on Sept 24, 2020 8:49:02 GMT -5
I get there is a learning curve with technology. What ticked me off was acting like it was an inconvience to provide parents with a schedule for the week so we all know what is expected and keep our kids on task/can plan our own workloads. That doesn't even require you know how to use Zoom. We don't care or mind if the meeting ends up canceled or breaks up. We just want a freaking idea of what's going on without having to literally sit at the laptop hitting refresh till something happens. We are told that school os from 8:17 to 3, and children are expected to be available at that time. In person school is fluid; therefore online school is fluid. We are lucky we are given the agenda the night before.
We have meeting with our principal tomorrow. I'm already having panic attacks.
That is a remarkably tone deaf policy. I’m surprised more people aren’t pulling their kids out.
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Post by azucena on Sept 24, 2020 8:54:57 GMT -5
Sorry didn't mean to be vague. Just frustrated that this is yet another complexity of the pandemic that is directly impacting my family. Our private K-8 school went from 180 kids to 248 with 68 new kids. Great for the school as we also opened our new building and needed additional enrollment to increase funding. Bad because so many kids at once is disruptive. My daughter's second grade classroom went from 13 to 19 and it sounds like at least 2 of the boys have behavioral problems which our school isn't particularly equipped to deal with. Besides being mama bear angry, I'm also disappointed that our school administrators keep bragging about the growth and waiting lists which I think has been a bit at our current families expense.
DD12's 7th grade class added a kid that's clearly on the spectrum, and she's gone out of her way to be nice to him because he's irritatingly quirky and doesn't follow social cues. And now he's making it very difficult to balance him with her core group of friends. And this is a disruption that my 12 yo didn't need either. Plus I heard thru the grapevine that his folks aren't happy about putting him in our school and are bad-mouthing our school so I just want to say pull him and deal with him at home now.
None of this is very Christian of me, but this year has maxxed me out.
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Post by giramomma on Sept 24, 2020 9:02:00 GMT -5
We are told that school os from 8:17 to 3, and children are expected to be available at that time. In person school is fluid; therefore online school is fluid. We are lucky we are given the agenda the night before.
We have meeting with our principal tomorrow. I'm already having panic attacks.
That is a remarkably tone deaf policy. I’m surprised more people aren’t pulling their kids out. I'm not. Parents are fine with this, because they really aren't interested in participating in their kids' education. Parents see sending the kids school as outsourcing their education. They've really washed their hands of constructive involvement other than writing checks.
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Post by bean29 on Sept 24, 2020 9:18:32 GMT -5
That is a remarkably tone deaf policy. I’m surprised more people aren’t pulling their kids out. I'm not. Parents are fine with this, because they really aren't interested in participating in their kids' education. Parents see sending the kids school as outsourcing their education. They've really washed their hands of constructive involvement other than writing checks.
I am confused Giramomma, you have some of your kids in private, and some in public right? This child is in Private school and they have this attitude? When my DD was in 3rd/4th grade in the Suburbs of Mke, there were a lot of parents that helped out in the Classroom - I know your schedule is not such that you could do this, but maybe other parents could. And her classes definitely had a schedule. Every grade school classroom I was ever in followed a Schedule like reading at 8, math at 9, Gym at 10, art at 11, Lunch etc. How can they not give parents at least a basic schedule? - that sounds like a teacher that is not at all in control of the classroom.
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Post by bean29 on Sept 24, 2020 9:25:01 GMT -5
Sorry didn't mean to be vague. Just frustrated that this is yet another complexity of the pandemic that is directly impacting my family. Our private K-8 school went from 180 kids to 248 with 68 new kids. Great for the school as we also opened our new building and needed additional enrollment to increase funding. Bad because so many kids at once is disruptive. My daughter's second grade classroom went from 13 to 19 and it sounds like at least 2 of the boys have behavioral problems which our school isn't particularly equipped to deal with. Besides being mama bear angry, I'm also disappointed that our school administrators keep bragging about the growth and waiting lists which I think has been a bit at our current families expense. DD12's 7th grade class added a kid that's clearly on the spectrum, and she's gone out of her way to be nice to him because he's irritatingly quirky and doesn't follow social cues. And now he's making it very difficult to balance him with her core group of friends. And this is a disruption that my 12 yo didn't need either. Plus I heard thru the grapevine that his folks aren't happy about putting him in our school and are bad-mouthing our school so I just want to say pull him and deal with him at home now. None of this is very Christian of me, but this year has maxxed me out. Well maybe someone with an Education background like Oped can give you some tips on how bets to interact with someone who is Autistic. My Son's girlfriend works with Autistic Children, she works for an agency not a school system - the schools contract out to them. She works mostly one on one, and sometimes she works in a padded room with one person at a time. She has to walk with a backpack between her and the child so that if they get violent she has something between her and them. Still, last year she ended up with a kid that attacked her and bit her in the arm. She had visible teeth marks on her arm. She likes what she does though, and has no plans to change careers.
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Post by giramomma on Sept 24, 2020 9:38:41 GMT -5
I'm not. Parents are fine with this, because they really aren't interested in participating in their kids' education. Parents see sending the kids school as outsourcing their education. They've really washed their hands of constructive involvement other than writing checks.
I am confused Giramomma, you have some of your kids in private, and some in public right? This child is in Private school and they have this attitude? When my DD was in 3rd/4th grade in the Suburbs of Mke, there were a lot of parents that helped out in the Classroom - I know your schedule is not such that you could do this, but maybe other parents could. And her classes definitely had a schedule. Every grade school classroom I was ever in followed a Schedule like reading at 8, math at 9, Gym at 10, art at 11, Lunch etc. How can they not give parents at least a basic schedule? - that sounds like a teacher that is not at all in control of the classroom. Yes. The girls are in private. DS is in public. For us at least, there is no value add in sending DS to private HS. Yes. The girls private school has this attitude.
Parental involvement has really taken a nose-dive over the last decade at our school. And, actually, with DS and DD1, I was in the school volunteering JUST as much as SAHMs. I backed off from the peanut, a bit, because she would cry that she'd have to share me with the other kids. So, i didn't go in as much, because that was a distraction. Sure the kids have a schedule. The problem is the online schedule is not the same as the school schedule. And again, we only find out about the peanut's the night before. And we are told that it's only tentative. Sometimes the schedule is flexed during the day.
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Post by Clifford on Sept 24, 2020 12:14:01 GMT -5
DD16's public school has completed 9 weeks already. They started hybrid, then went to full attendance, with the option from the beginning to go virtual. We chose virtual, along with about 20% of the student body. Although this may have been much higher, but 40% of our students do not have capable home internet service. She takes 4 classes through a contractor that the school chose, 1 dual enrollment from a local CC, and one from the local Uni - all online.
Here's the thing - they are letting the virtual students choose every 9 weeks if they will remain virtual or come on to school. We have about a week to decide if she is going to attend in person now. They have done a good job managing Covid, and they post the results weekly (even though our state does not require them to report anything).
It was hard enough the first time, but we're right back to decision time again.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Sept 24, 2020 15:19:53 GMT -5
Drama- and yet I can be in my 50s, didn't grow up with computers and, because my job depends on it, I forced myself to figure out the whole 'work online' myself on my own time. Sorry teachers, get on the internet and figure it out before hand. Just like the rest of us have to. It's not fun but don't take it out on the kids. I don't completely disagree with you but I want to point out that there may not have been much time before hand to figure it out. For example, this fall instead of having the normal back to school workshop week to prepare, I had to do additional trainings on COVID, health and safety, learn the new protocols on social distancing, re-arrange desks, take down all items, change all lesson plans to accommodate a change to block scheduling. In addition there are multiple systems to learn; Zoom, Google Meets, Schoology, Loom, Flip grid, Padlet, Nearpod. It isn't just as simple as learn on your own time when you aren't given the time to do so before school starts. It isn't appropriate for teachers to take out their lack of planning on their students but at this point everyone should be patient and giving grace as we figure this out. On the one hand, the teachers had all summer to prepare for this. On the other hand, schools often force teachers to use the most glitchy, overly complicated, unreliable software imaginable. And you have no way of knowing if the teachers have reliable PCs to work on.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Sept 24, 2020 15:58:41 GMT -5
School started for us in the middle of August. Case counts stayed steady for about three weeks and then started to skyrocket.
My school district decided that in a couple of weeks, the kids won’t be going on Fridays, which isn’t a big deal, since they only go half days on Fridays anyway. I have a feeling they’re just gonna start inching towards remote learning as time goes on.
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Post by cyanne on Sept 24, 2020 17:05:14 GMT -5
I don't completely disagree with you but I want to point out that there may not have been much time before hand to figure it out. For example, this fall instead of having the normal back to school workshop week to prepare, I had to do additional trainings on COVID, health and safety, learn the new protocols on social distancing, re-arrange desks, take down all items, change all lesson plans to accommodate a change to block scheduling. In addition there are multiple systems to learn; Zoom, Google Meets, Schoology, Loom, Flip grid, Padlet, Nearpod. It isn't just as simple as learn on your own time when you aren't given the time to do so before school starts. It isn't appropriate for teachers to take out their lack of planning on their students but at this point everyone should be patient and giving grace as we figure this out. On the one hand, the teachers had all summer to prepare for this. On the other hand, schools often force teachers to use the most glitchy, overly complicated, unreliable software imaginable. And you have no way of knowing if the teachers have reliable PCs to work on. I can’t speak for all teachers but when we went into summer break Zoom wasn’t approved due to security issues. When we came back we were told we could start using Zoom since they signed a security agreement. There were others that we were told we could now use. It is unrealistic to expect teachers to practice programs that they haven’t had approval to use.
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Post by debthaven on Sept 24, 2020 17:54:33 GMT -5
Job 1 just announced that as of Monday, they are alternating in-person & Zoom classes. Different years are on opposite schedules.
So I will have to rush to/from school on Tuesdays. (If I'm teaching on Zoom, I'd rather be home.) However, I will now be able to WFH every other Thursday! With the HUGE amount of added stress, that's nice.
If things continue to decline, in a week or two EVERYTHING may be on Zoom.
No news from Job 2, where ALL my classes are hybrid. I would have MUCH preferred for the hybrid classes to go online. There was a meeting tonight, so things may change.
If it's any comfort to the parents here, please know that the teachers too find all this very stressful.
(I work at two business schools, 2 days/week at each.)
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Post by formerroomate99 on Sept 24, 2020 18:12:08 GMT -5
Y'all aren't going to like this, but my conclusion is that hybrid (partially remote) teaching is here to stay, definitely at the university level, but not only. I've been doing it for a month, and I agree that it sucks. It's the worst of both worlds. Like my friend colleague P said today, hybrid teaching is embracing mediocrity. But ... many of you are still working from home, right? If it's OK for you to work from home, what about when a teacher gets sick? If they're an adjunct (as the majority of college professors are), they'll do their best to teach from home, because they care about their students, and they don't want to lose their hours (pay). But even if they WERE willing to lose their hours ... news flash, there's nobody to replace them!!! For the younger kids ... let's say they get sick with a typical childhood disease. Before they would have just been out of school for a week or two. But if YOUR child with that childhood disease isn't well enough to go to school, or is just contagious but feeling fine, YOU will want your child to have the option of following class online. After helping them school remotely for MONTHS, you will NOT say, oh well, it doesn't matter if they're off school for a week or two. All this to say ... the same way I think we will no longer be able to demand that adults be physically present at work 5 days a week like before (bar certain professions ... it's very hard to wait on tables, or cook, or clean hotel rooms remotely), I also think we will no longer be able to demand that university students, or even younger kids, be in class 5 days/week. It can (and should) be the goal, but IMO, from this point forward, there will ALWAYS be exceptions, and therefore dual/hybrid teaching. For better or worse, I think we cannot unring that bell, or close Pandora's box. Plus as others have mentioned, the universities don't want to lose the foreign students paying big bucks (that's the case here too). ETA: To clarify, dual/hybrid teaching means having some students in class, and others on Zoom. I did 3 months on Zoom, it was MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to have everyone on Zoom. I'm NOT advocating doing everything on Zoom, I'm just explaining, and saying that dual/hybrid teaching is much harder, both for the teacher AND the students. Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. Like it or not, a lot of the people going to college have jobs and families. And commuting to the college campus for every single lecture is a huge time suck. For the life of me, I’ll never understand why the tree huggers didn’t jump on the work from home bandwagon 20 years ago. Very few people enjoy commuting, and having large numbers of people traveling large distances at the same time is a huge waste of resources.There’s always going to be a place for FaceTime. But forcing employees to travel at the height of rush hour five days a week when they could just come in a couple days a week for meetings is idiotic. Trying to manage a class where half is at home and half is in the room sounds like the seventh circle of hell. I don’t know how my sons teachers do it.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Sept 24, 2020 18:37:35 GMT -5
To all you all you teachers out there, doing the online instruction could open some doors for you. I know several people who have side hustles doing online education, both for students in this country and also teaching students in other countries English.
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Post by debthaven on Sept 24, 2020 18:51:08 GMT -5
Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. (sic)
That may well be, but not where I live. So it's new to me, and that's all I can speak to.
ETA: I'm guessing the hybrid classes you claim have been around "for years" were asynchronous, ie they were RECORDED LECTURES that students could watch on their own time.
There is a HUGE difference between synchronous and asynchronous classes. I'm NOT talking about watching pre-recorded lectures! I'm talking about INTERACTIVE classes with half the class present, and half the class remote!
I know I write clearly and concisely, I don't need anyone to tell me that. So either you have a reading comprehension issue, or you're trying to create an argument.
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Post by debthaven on Sept 24, 2020 19:20:28 GMT -5
To all you all you teachers out there, doing the online instruction could open some doors for you.Thank you for that advice!!! I'm sure we'll all take it to heart, given that all us teachers have already been teaching online since March, when we went from in-person teaching to online teaching literally overnight. MANSPLAIN MUCH?! ETA: I have a better idea ... since you visibly know so much about it, could you please show us how to do it? Calling the teachers here giramomma Knee Deep in Water Chloe @bamafan1954 mathsplosion to watch the demonstration on hybrid learning.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Sept 24, 2020 19:25:03 GMT -5
Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. (sic) That may well be, but not where I live. So it's new to me, and that's all I can speak to. ETA: I'm guessing the hybrid classes you claim have been around "for years" were asynchronous, ie they were RECORDED LECTURES that students could watch on their own time. There is a HUGE difference between synchronous and asynchronous classes. I'm NOT talking about watching pre-recorded lectures! I'm talking about INTERACTIVE classes with half the class present, and half the class remote! I know I write clearly and concisely, I don't need anyone to tell me that. So either you have a reading comprehension issue, or you're trying to create an argument. That is still not very common, but I did take a class like that back in the mid-90's.
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Post by debthaven on Sept 24, 2020 19:28:32 GMT -5
Lizard Queen I'd be curious to know what you learned/did. I had another profession before. I know France is behind but this is the first year I've ever had to do hybrid/dual teaching. Last year was the first year I ever had to do remote teaching. This is my 10th year teaching, I'm not exactly inexperienced.
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Post by Clifford on Sept 24, 2020 19:31:52 GMT -5
Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. (sic) That may well be, but not where I live. So it's new to me, and that's all I can speak to. ETA: I'm guessing the hybrid classes you claim have been around "for years" were asynchronous, ie they were RECORDED LECTURES that students could watch on their own time. There is a HUGE difference between synchronous and asynchronous classes. I'm NOT talking about watching pre-recorded lectures! I'm talking about INTERACTIVE classes with half the class present, and half the class remote! Also, sadly, CARES Act funding to help teachers and schools prepare for the transition to more of an online or hybrid model have been very slow to arrive. Be it the Feds or the State, our district's funds were not available in time for the fall semester. Even if they were, don't districts make plans months (years?) in advance with their slim budgets, so that the CARES funds - or any new ones - are likely too late to help this school year?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Sept 24, 2020 19:46:10 GMT -5
Lizard Queen I'd be curious to know what you learned/did. I had another profession before. I know France is behind but this is the first year I've ever had to do hybrid/dual teaching. Last year was the first year I ever had to do remote teaching. This is my 10th year teaching, I'm not exactly inexperienced. It was so long ago, I don't remember too much about it. The remote site was at the local CC, the main college was 40 miles away. I actually liked it, and would have done more except there weren't many class offerings that I needed. I don't remember any problems, but the mechanism back then was different than what we have these days--probably video cameras and tv's. The class was human resource management.
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Post by lurkyloo on Sept 24, 2020 19:57:24 GMT -5
Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. (sic) That may well be, but not where I live. So it's new to me, and that's all I can speak to. ETA: I'm guessing the hybrid classes you claim have been around "for years" were asynchronous, ie they were RECORDED LECTURES that students could watch on their own time. There is a HUGE difference between synchronous and asynchronous classes. I'm NOT talking about watching pre-recorded lectures! I'm talking about INTERACTIVE classes with half the class present, and half the class remote! I know I write clearly and concisely, I don't need anyone to tell me that. So either you have a reading comprehension issue, or you're trying to create an argument. That is still not very common, but I did take a class like that back in the mid-90's. We had one sort of like that in high school. There weren’t enough AP foreign language students to justify a full class, so we shared a teacher with the high school across town. I think they had a closed circuit TV system or something? I remember we had a camera, screen, and an overhead projector that was set up to broadcast to the other room. The teacher alternated locations (AP students, largely seniors, reasonably well behaved without direct supervision...except maybe the day we decided to flick playing cards everywhere Still not the same as half the class at their respective homes, but remarkably advanced for mid-90s
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Post by irishpad on Sept 24, 2020 20:59:31 GMT -5
Sorry didn't mean to be vague. Just frustrated that this is yet another complexity of the pandemic that is directly impacting my family. Our private K-8 school went from 180 kids to 248 with 68 new kids. Great for the school as we also opened our new building and needed additional enrollment to increase funding. Bad because so many kids at once is disruptive. My daughter's second grade classroom went from 13 to 19 and it sounds like at least 2 of the boys have behavioral problems which our school isn't particularly equipped to deal with. Besides being mama bear angry, I'm also disappointed that our school administrators keep bragging about the growth and waiting lists which I think has been a bit at our current families expense. DD12's 7th grade class added a kid that's clearly on the spectrum, and she's gone out of her way to be nice to him because he's irritatingly quirky and doesn't follow social cues. And now he's making it very difficult to balance him with her core group of friends. And this is a disruption that my 12 yo didn't need either. Plus I heard thru the grapevine that his folks aren't happy about putting him in our school and are bad-mouthing our school so I just want to say pull him and deal with him at home now. None of this is very Christian of me, but this year has maxxed me out. The school at my parish is about the same size, Pre-K -8 , 230 students. We have two sections in K - 3, trying to keep the #'s low. We have several new families but did not accept every request as we asked for more than a temporary commitment to the school. (otherwise, didn't want them leaving suddenly if the public school situation suddenly switched) It is a joy to see that our student population is move diverse than the general population and fiscally is very reflective of the general population. azucena , don't feel bad about the frustrations you are feeling and also know you have raised a great daughter in that she has gone out of her way to befriend that new student. Says a lot about you and her!
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Post by azucena on Sept 25, 2020 7:30:59 GMT -5
Irish - thanks for your response. We accepted all new students and are bragging about our waiting lists. I wish we had paid attention to behavioral and learning disorders because we're not set up for them which means we aren't doing those families any favors. And I'm pretty sure behind the scenes we gave out more scholarships than usual too. Like I said, I'm jaded.
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 25, 2020 10:22:22 GMT -5
My husband teaches a graduate course. He has been teaching in person, but the school set up cameras and a screen, so he is also live on zoom. The school announced that after Thanksgiving all classes would be online. After that announcement, campus has become quiet. There were 3 people in the classroom with him yesterday, and he felt like he was in a ghost town.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Sept 25, 2020 10:30:33 GMT -5
Plenty of colleges have been doing a hybrid classes for years. (sic) That may well be, but not where I live. So it's new to me, and that's all I can speak to. ETA: I'm guessing the hybrid classes you claim have been around "for years" were asynchronous, ie they were RECORDED LECTURES that students could watch on their own time. There is a HUGE difference between synchronous and asynchronous classes. I'm NOT talking about watching pre-recorded lectures! I'm talking about INTERACTIVE classes with half the class present, and half the class remote! I know I write clearly and concisely, I don't need anyone to tell me that. So either you have a reading comprehension issue, or you're trying to create an argument. Several of my husband’s classes have been like that. You can show up or you can hop on a zoom meeting. Some others, half the lectures are completely online and the others are either in person or you can watch a recorded class. The educational system is a little different in Utah, because nearly everybody is a nontraditional student. People get married at 19 and then go through college while juggling jobs and kids. The elementary and high school teachers are having a rough time though. Teaching and doing classroom management online is a completely different animal than doing it in person. And to have to do both simultaneously when you’re just learning the online part has to be really rough. I attended one of the school district meetings before school started, where they discussed the various options for school, and one of the teachers just started crying, saying that they love the kids and will do their best for them.
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Post by oped on Sept 25, 2020 10:31:59 GMT -5
My kids schools said no classes in person after Thanksgiving from the beginning. Daughters is still in person at the moment but we've talked about her staying home if possible when she comes home to vote, which would be 3 weeks early. Son's school is all virtual so he's home now.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Sept 25, 2020 10:38:07 GMT -5
azucena I'm sorry the influx is causing issues for your family. It sounds like a crappy situation where all they want are those tuition dollars. I hope things smooth out for your oldest. You should be proud though that she went out of her way to include him. It speaks volumes about her character. Give yourself grace on your feelings about it. They seem very valid. Scatterbrained me forgot to post this yesterday.
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 25, 2020 14:14:42 GMT -5
Welp...my son has mono. At least he doesn't have to "miss" school. As long as he is awake, he can still do class.
2020 strikes again. 😒
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 25, 2020 14:27:03 GMT -5
Many years ago now in what actually seems like a lifetime ago (probably around 2005 or so), a friend of mine got a master's degree in some education program all online. She only had virtual break out groups.
She had to "attend" class while we were in Las Vegas.
She was working full time so the online worked best for her.
I know online was a lot different then because she was not on Zoom or any kind of video.
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