Kansas Crimson

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:53 am Well and there's also a big factor not discussed much that parents can't afford to have their kids stay home another extended absence. Yes, a lot of people are working from home. But imagine having a kid get 6 hours worth of school work in per day, on top of your typical work. It's nearly impossible for the majority of the population.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:23 am

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:53 am Well and there's also a big factor not discussed much that parents can't afford to have their kids stay home another extended absence. Yes, a lot of people are working from home. But imagine having a kid get 6 hours worth of school work in per day, on top of your typical work. It's nearly impossible for the majority of the population.

Very true.

And i didnt mean my original comment to come across as judgemental. I know everyone has unique situations so some are willing or forced to take more health risk for their kids.


This is sort of snowballing off of your comment here....but a lot of parents do view school as their babysitter. I don't mean that in a negative way, but often times some parents choose (or are forced by work/financial situations) to send their kids to school when they know they are sick. That is why i had little faith in the "if your kid is sick or has possibly been exposed then keep them home" method that some schools were trying to deploy as a way to make schools "safe" to open. It will never happen. Too many selfish parents (or parents that simply aren't able to miss work). Whenever my kid is even the least bit sick where i am concerned she could get someone else sick we keep her home...but even family and friends will ask us to watch their kid(s) on weekends or something when they have a function to attend and too many times to count they drop them off and they are coughing/sniffling or have a fever or 2 days later we find out "oh she was puking a day ago, but was fine the day we sent her to you guys"....people are selfish. And half these kids have parents that are in the "this is fake crowd" or parents that after 2 weeks of half assed "lockdown" were so sick of dealing with their kids that they let that influence how they interpret science during a pandemic. It is so predictable.

Personally i have loved the extra time with my kids. I enjoy trying to be their teacher (and i do mean trying because there is no doubt it is challenging). I am looking forward to her start of the year doing remote learning and think it will actually be good for her little brother because we are going to have him do "school time" when she does with various activities.

This week we are growing butterflies from caterpillars and learning about butterflies and moths. There is a company we found that sends you kits and live caterpillars so it makes it easy. You basically just let nature do its' thing. So they have been excited to see transformation from tiny baby caterpillars into bigger ones...and eventually butterflies.



And back to more of the topic: i think employers should be the ones sacrificing and taking on some of the burden rather than the schools. This would be a great time for our society to "renegotiate our social contracts" in a way that makes it less impossible to care for (and simply spend time with) our kids.

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:51 am My school is a bit opposite. They have a plan, but would require the kids to be in front on a computer screen for 6 hours a day. Just tough to do that for young kids.

We are doing a hybrid. Starts off as 2 days a week in school and 3 at home. One group would go Monday and Tuesday. They’d clean building Wednesday and then next group does Thursday and Friday.

I feel confident in my district’s abilities with this whole thing. Kind of nice compared to what we see on state and national levels.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:57 am

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:51 am My school is a bit opposite. They have a plan, but would require the kids to be in front on a computer screen for 6 hours a day. Just tough to do that for young kids.

We are doing a hybrid. Starts off as 2 days a week in school and 3 at home. One group would go Monday and Tuesday. They’d clean building Wednesday and then next group does Thursday and Friday.

I feel confident in my district’s abilities with this whole thing. Kind of nice compared to what we see on state and national levels.

Sounds similar to here...although cases in my county are on a steady climb with 50ish+ new cases daily....so they scrapped in person for 1st quarter in favor of fully remote (we had already chosen remote for 1st 2quarters anyway)....thankfully not many hospitalizations from all the new cases and deaths are also low other than when it gets into nursing homes.

Agree on the "in front of a computer" all day concern. My daughter is 1st grade so thankfully hers will only be an hour or 2 of live zoom or pre recorded class and then we will have activities or projects to work on with her the other portion of the day....and luckily i am capable of teacher her 1st grade type stuff. I would be fucked if we had a high schooler and had harder stuff to attempt to "teach" her.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:10 am We have 7th and 4th, and the way they teach math now is completely foreign to us. We are of no help.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:10 am

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:57 am

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:51 am My school is a bit opposite. They have a plan, but would require the kids to be in front on a computer screen for 6 hours a day. Just tough to do that for young kids.

We are doing a hybrid. Starts off as 2 days a week in school and 3 at home. One group would go Monday and Tuesday. They’d clean building Wednesday and then next group does Thursday and Friday.

I feel confident in my district’s abilities with this whole thing. Kind of nice compared to what we see on state and national levels.

Sounds similar to here...although cases in my county are on a steady climb with 50ish+ new cases daily....so they scrapped in person for 1st quarter in favor of fully remote (we had already chosen remote for 1st 2quarters anyway)....thankfully not many hospitalizations from all the new cases and deaths are also low other than when it gets into nursing homes.

Agree on the "in front of a computer" all day concern. My daughter is 1st grade so thankfully hers will only be an hour or 2 of live zoom or pre recorded class and then we will have activities or projects to work on with her the other portion of the day....and luckily i am capable of teacher her 1st grade type stuff. I would be fucked if we had a high schooler and had harder stuff to attempt to "teach" her.

We have 7th and 4th, and the way they teach math now is completely foreign to us. We are of no help.

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:11 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:10 am We have 7th and 4th, and the way they teach math now is completely foreign to us. We are of no help.

My oldest was in second grade last year. Just plain subtraction was waaaay different. Definitely a challenge to try to figure out a common ground.

sdoyel wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:03 pm My 4yo’s preschool program was just shut down. 3 weeks from the start of the year. Just great. Fuck this incompetent government administration!

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:04 am leaders are supposed to lead

be they mayors, governors, legislators or presidents

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:31 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:04 am leaders are supposed to lead

be they mayors, governors, legislators or presidents

Agreed, but at the very least a relevant portion of our population had no desire to be led.