Plenty of them.
Thanks. Makes sense we were back so quickly because we have no collective bargaining rights. It still doesn't really explain the fact teachers themselves wanted to be back in the classroom overwhelmingly. Nobody in my building wanted to do online teaching. It sucked.Plenty of them.
Here is a good discussion about how teachers unions slowed down the return to in person schooling across the country.
Teachers’ unions: Scapegoats or bad-faith actors in COVID-19 school reopening decisions?
How should we view unions' actions?brook.gs
Yeah, just keep doing the same thing then with a 2 out of 25 compliance rate and complain about it.
Don’t know about the GOP objective but mine would be to give them the best education possible.
Totally, totally agree here. While some good teachers help their students overcome obstacles, etc, and some bad teachers may even indirectly limit some/all of their students.
Teachers in your area…teachers in Chicago didn’t seem to want to go back to in person.
If you aren't going to answer something that comes to your cell phone you definitely won't return anything by snail mail/student.
It gets buried in the garbage of the email inbox. And, is easier to miss.
Are schools still remote only? I thought that was just 2020-21.GAZETTE: What is the magnitude of students’ learning loss due to the pandemic? Which school districts have been the most affected?
KANE: We found that districts that spent more weeks in remote instruction lost more ground than districts that returned to in-person instruction sooner. Anyone who has been teaching by Zoom would not be surprised by that. The striking and important finding was that remote instruction had much more negative impacts in high-poverty schools. High-poverty schools were more likely to go remote and their students lost more when they did so. Both mattered, but the latter effect mattered more. To give you a sense of the magnitude: In high-poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2021, the loss was about half of a school year’s worth of typical achievement growth.
GAZETTE: What is the percentage of students who have experienced learning loss in the U.S.?
KANE: There are 50 million students in the U.S. About 40 percent, or 20 million students, nationally were in schools that conducted classes remotely for less than four weeks, and 30 percent, or 15 million students, remained in remote instruction for more than 16 weeks. In other words, about 40 percent spent less than a month in remote instruction, but about 30 percent spent more than four months in remote instruction. It is the dramatic growth in educational inequity in those districts that remained remote that should worry us.
Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap — Harvard Gazette
A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.news.harvard.edu
In our suburban town, schools went remote for the spring of '20, which was a disaster because there was no plan in place once covid hit. For most of '20-21 kids were remote outside of the last month and a half where it was optional to be in person or not and my daughter's school did a phenomenal job with the kids. My daughter excelled with the remote learning even handing out laptops to anyone who needed one. This year it was all back in person learning. The reason I bring it up is that the NJ town I live in was on the side of caution, so it surprises me that there are still schools that are fully remote.
I think basically everyone is back in person now....
