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[lo n slo]

we got it going on in our house. my wife is a sign language interpreter for the local school system. plus, we have the grandkids 3-4 days each week. she works from our home office while the grandkids split up into separate rooms. i get to oversee the grandkids, fix food, and whatever else needs tending to. good thing i’m retired. we got a taste of this back in the spring before school let out for the summer, so we’re somewhat familiar with the process. 

 

anyone else out there doing this? 

[TnRiver46]

You’re a better man than I! I don’t even like thinking about school since I finished in ‘07. The only time I come near anything school related is when the skunks and groundhogs get under the portables haha. 

[.ghoti.]

Starting this week. Get my grandsons; one 13, one 7. Tuesday and Thursday one week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the next. I’ve seen some of the materials. A bit of teaching is going to be required. Hope you are ready for that. Being a retired professor, I do not anticipate any difficulty. 

[Bankbeater]

Nope. One daughter working and one daughter just started her sophomore year in college.  
Probably going to have a shortened semester with online finals. That is what they did in the spring. 

[PourMyOwn]

I'm a teacher and athletic director. Some of my students are remote, while most are not. It's going to be a challenging year, but significantly better than last spring because we are prepared to deal with it. I would love to go back to the way things used to be, I miss seeing my students.

[12poundbass]

Our son just start in person school last Wednesday. Thankfully there are only around 115 or so kids at his school K-8 grade, so the classes are very very small, lunch is in their own classrooms and recess is split amongst several  grades and if you’re not in the same class you must social distance. 
 

His school recently upgraded their Apple computers and sold the used ones dirt cheap so if things go south and remote schooling begins we’ll be prepared. 

[flyfisher]

I am an elementary school teacher and my district is all virtual and I will be teaching from home.  My son is going into 5th and he will be doing virtual classes and my wife is working from home as well.  My 4 year old daughter just started back to daycare full time last week.  Our house will be crazy but we will get through it and learn a lot in the process.  I am hoping that these online learning/teaching opportunities create a new realm if you will for mainstream school systems to utilize so that they can better service the students.  I could see this being the norm in certain instances aka no more snow days which could potentially shorten the length of the school year as around here, they build snow days into the schedule.  

[BassNJake]

My kids have been going 1 day a week for August and will go twice a week in Sept.

All the kids in the middle and high school have chromebooks, to do the homework during the week.

They get assignments posted, but there are no virtual classes at home.

Tennessee gonna Tennessee

 

Sucks for my daughter as this is her senior year

[TnRiver46]

35 minutes ago, BassNJake said:

My kids have been going 1 day a week for August and will go twice a week in Sept.

All the kids in the middle and high school have chromebooks, to do the homework during the week.

They get assignments posted, but there are no virtual classes at home.

Tennessee gonna Tennessee

 

Sucks for my daughter as this is her senior year

Where you live, people still walk to the schoolhouse uphill both ways in the snow and carry a satchel of books haha

[lo n slo]

ok, the Spanish teacher is really pretty. this is gonna be a lot better than climbing up and down a ladder all day.

 

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[N Florida Mike]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Where you live, people still walk to the schoolhouse uphill both ways in the snow and carry a satchel of books haha

No, that couldn’t be right. That was true where my dad was from!?

[VolFan]

We've got it going. Thankfully my 5th grader is pretty self sufficient (and i kind of like math and science).  Quarantined last week and this which helped, but still not ideal. People have had to endure much, much worse.

[slonezp]

There's a shortage of 5 million computers that you as taxpayers are funding.

[Bluebasser86]

We're doing online for the first half of the year to see how things go. We've got the option to for him to go back in January if there's no problems though. Since Lake is only in 1st grade we're not too concerned on him missing much other than the social interaction, especially since he's already testing way higher than his age. More concerned about the potential health issues with his asthma so playing it safe for now.

[CountryboyinDC]

Schools where we are have (Fairfax County, VA) are starting the school year virtually after Labor Day.  Since there are many 2 job working families (and because some of the parents just want the kids out of the house several hours of the day), yuppies up this way have started 'podding'.  This means your kid(s) stay within a small number of other kids and either the parents rotate overseeing the teaching they're getting through the screen, or you hire a tutor.  We're throwing in with a teacher that doesn't want to go back to school because he has a susceptible kid, and he actually wants to teach.  It cost more than most people's mortgage payment, but with 7 hours of instruction every day, either the wife or I would have to quit working or sleeping one until they go back to school.  I'm ready for this virus to go away.

[CountryboyinDC]

8 hours ago, slonezp said:

There's a shortage of 5 million computers that you as taxpayers are funding.

There is no way this is true.  The computer they gave us was mothballed during the Cold War.  We turned it on and it went to the DOS prompt.  A Raspberry Pi has more horsepower than this 20 pound relic.

[gim]

My Father is a retired math/stats HS teacher.  He has been retired from full time teaching for about 7 years but he still occasionally subs about 1-2 days a week at certain times of the year at various school districts within a reasonable driving distance of his home.  I asked him what he thought school districts should do this fall.  He said it should based on the local rate of transmission in the community.  Just because a rural school district has less students than a big urban one, doesn't mean that there is a lower rate of infection.  He said people don't often understand this concept.

 

I know he could sub every single day of the academic school year if he wanted to - there's that much demand.  He said he won't be doing it again until at least fall 2021, if he ever does it again that is.  Since he's 67 and has had 3 stents from a previous cardiac issue, he is somewhat higher risk even though he's in fine shape for his age.  I'm sure there are a lot of other teachers that are in a similar situation as he is and going back into a classroom full of unsanitary, virus-transmitting students does not sound very appealing.

[lo n slo]

i get the day off tomorrow so i’m going fishing

 

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[Koz]

My son starts his freshman year of high school in a few weeks and for the time being all his classes are online.

 

In the meantime, I'm contemplating different ways to haze him so he gets the full first week freshman experience. ?