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Post by echo on Sept 4, 2020 8:24:13 GMT -8
@beemerphill here it is Expected they do 4 hours a day for first through 5th grade. She is on a zoom meeting with her class from 8:30 to 10 every day, Pledge, roll, morning meeting, exercises, practice using the tools like muting herself and going from main speaker view to class view. Every Friday they drop off a folder of work on a table in the lunchroom and pick up next weeks work packet. Every day they use a platform called seesaw to check for messages, turn in video’s and pictures and do interactive math or reading work but that is on their own time. The teacher records herself reading a book to them each day. It’s not as good as class but not too bad. She cries less every day, but first graders cry the first week in real school too. Our county is one of the highest poverty counties in CA so every child, birth to 18 also can get a free lunch, and the next days breakfast at the schools or a bus stop.
Thanks for the good wishes for my granddaughter
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 4, 2020 9:39:57 GMT -8
echo, you're in an excellent position to judge how distance learning affects children. I've read that it's hard on children, I assume b/c of the lack of interaction, so I'm wondering how this is addressed. Are there any group discussions just for the children, as in what they're doing outside of school...recreation, family trips, etc. This may turn out to be the wave of the future, and Daisy and others will have experience that will put them far ahead of others. I appreciate your insights; please keep them coming!
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Sept 4, 2020 12:36:33 GMT -8
And SUNY-Oneonta just sent all their students home because, within 2 weeks, about 10% of the students tested positive, due to 3 superspreader events (parties)... Nationwide we are starting to see college sending students home ... again. The CDC is advising against this as keeping students from spreading any on their way back home. abcnews.go.com/US/colleges-students-leave-campus-amid-covid-19-outbreaks/story?id=72776811I’m also curious if year-long leases were again required of students after the Spring ‘20 closings had many paying rent for empty apartments/dorms (though most spring semesters were halfway done)? Could have an effect on local rent and even housing markets if someone’s looking.
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Post by echo on Sept 4, 2020 14:34:52 GMT -8
Ok, on an even more personal level is my middle grandchild. He’s four and I have gotten three spontaneous hugs from him in his life. He lives four miles from me and is non verbal, autistic, very alert and aware of the happenings around him, quick to imitate another child but in parallel, not interactive. He climbs and runs and since he has been in school last year was making progress with signing, but also picking up behaviors like spitting and biting. He is also expected to interact with his class on zoom. That will not happen. He doesn’t do eye contact or long attention spans. He tried once, and was soon done with that. And there is the real issue, the kids who really don’t need school as much because they have parents who take them places, talk to them, get them internet and monitor that they use it for healthy things that are developmentally appropriate will keep being just fine. The kids who are abused, or neglected will be more so, the kids who are behind because there is no time and money for resources or attention will have the hardest time and fall further behind.
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Post by sarbar on Sept 4, 2020 18:14:50 GMT -8
The remote learning....Kirk and I sat down last spring and said we would not do it, we would not put our boys through it. We pulled our boys out of school before the schools shut down in mid March in Wa state.
I filed our intent to homeschool with our district, which is very small (1400 children). I bought a secular curriculum and other items. I know quite well I am privileged to do this with them.
At the last minute, our district was swamped with parents leaving, so they cobbled a second program. This one would recognize homeschooling parents, but offer the use of a teacher as a mentor. We can use our system, or the school will put one together. What we get is IEP services, library, and the school farm, along with state assessments. While school "started" on Wed, real school won't start till the 14th. I meet with the boys' mentor teachers on Tuesday to get their Chromebooks, and if we want, all the books and handouts. I'll take them, because you never know.
I decided to stay in the district to be nice, so they don't have to lay off as many people. Not having to get yearly assessments done is worth it. And I stay legal with the state.
However.....I am already teaching them, and have been for 2 weeks. We will do our thing till the school is ready.
I worry a lot about the children who need help though. Zoom isn't enough. It isn't a substitute. My youngest went to developmental preschool for 2 years, and it is why he does so well in school now. He was partnered with neurotypical children (who were there due to income, ecap) and he learned so much for his severe speech delay and sensory issues. He is an A student now, but....he hates Zoom and online school - my teaching out of paper books has done him well.
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 4, 2020 19:39:28 GMT -8
echo, you make good points about the children who really need the support of school. How, if at all, are special needs programs being handled? I would think this would be quite difficult as if the children aren't in school, they don't have the benefit of the special needs curricula, and at home, the parents probably aren't trained for it.
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Post by sarbar on Sept 5, 2020 8:19:59 GMT -8
How, if at all, are special needs programs being handled? They are not. That is the saddest part. Our district is doing some special needs in person, outside only. But only for the hardest cases. In my example, when my youngest was in preschool, he wouldn't have gotten help in person. He would have become a year behind his peers quickly. Due to that help he received he is AHEAD of his peers now. I fear for the children this year so much. The one thing our district is doing I am happy about is Kinders get 2 days in person, outside. Kinders need to be in person. Not in front of a screen.
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Post by echo on Sept 5, 2020 8:35:44 GMT -8
Our county is the biggest unified school district in CA area wise, and the plan is to start kids with SpEd plans back in person first, within the next week maybe. And then the other kids hopefully by 10/05 but our county wide active cases has dropped down to only 2. We’ve had 1 death and 3 hospitalized and as many as 24 active at one time. 27 is the number required to put us in California’s worst level. When they do go back it will be half the class on 2 days, another half on a different 2, no recess, meals in the classroom, and everyone online on Fridays.
California’s prisons have been impacted big time, but not Pelican Bay where my husband works. He has some staff positive, but no inmates, and all were tested.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Sept 6, 2020 19:12:13 GMT -8
Update on my experience with my mom. We went over for mom's moving day and, although the facility that my my mom was being moved to was in lockdown, we were able to visit because she was in hospice. So got to see her in her new apartment and were able to move some familiar things into her room. Visited again the next week. Mom was doing OK and declared having a turning point. Went back for another full week. We emptied her former apartment. We packed up a lot into a storage unit in case she recovered.
On the evening of the 29th of August I spent over 1/2 hour petting my mom's head. She was in and out of reality. The evening of August 30, my bro-in-law, my husband and I visited. My mom was just wanting to sleep but we talked and kept company for awhile. Very early on August 31 she passed away.
So we had her passing, turned in the keys to her apartment, cleaned out her new room and turned in those keys also, before noon. So final.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 6, 2020 20:31:18 GMT -8
hikerchick395, I am so sorry for your loss, and so glad you got to spend time with her in hospice before she died. That’s a gift we can none of us take for granted in these awful times.
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Post by echo on Sept 6, 2020 20:33:13 GMT -8
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Post by BigLoad on Sept 6, 2020 22:03:45 GMT -8
So we had her passing, turned in the keys to her apartment, cleaned out her new room and turned in those keys also, before noon. So final. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you got some time together at the end.
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Post by zeke on Sept 7, 2020 3:47:29 GMT -8
hikerchick395 I am sorry to hear about your mother passing, but am happy you got to spend some time with her. I'll keep you in my thoughts.
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 7, 2020 7:55:33 GMT -8
hikerchick395, I echo the condolences of others. I'm so sorry for your loss; even when it's anticipated it's upsetting, but I am glad that you could spend some last moments with her, so she could pass in peace knowing that you've said your (silent) goodbyes. echo, your tribute is lovely, poetic and soothing.
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Post by mk on Sept 7, 2020 13:37:18 GMT -8
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