We got added to the family seesaw app and I'm the guardian of her google classroom so we get an email on Friday showing all work for the week what was turned in and graded. This morning Ms D told the class that us parents will know if they are doing the stuff she assigns or not.
DD has figured out how to read on Epic while on class zooms. Do I turn her into her teacher? She listens and talks when needed for class and this week is just how things are going to work so I get it isn't interesting but I feel like DD doing this is a bad habit. She did this last spring but she was using a dual monitor so had her library e-book on one monitor and zoom on the other. This year it is all on the Chromebook.
186momx , I wouldn't allow it if it were my kid, and I will explain why. DS used to do this in class in 2nd grade. He would grab a book and read it during class. The experienced teacher would complain to me, and I am thinking what's the big deal, at least he is reading and you are there anyway, so what can I do when it happens at school? But then similar things start happening at home, and I realize it is during moments when he is supposed to be doing something else or paying attention to the teacher. So for him, it is an attention thing as in he is not paying attention to what he is supposed to be doing. He is not reading at appropriate moments, which hopefully will come with age. Instead it is a constant re-direction thing and the teacher would always have to swing by and be like OK get on task. Since your child appears to not have attention issues, that might not be the case for her.
Now DD, does assignments while listening to Zoom, but the teacher has directed them to do so.
186momx, I'd nip it in the bud. To me, books are the equivalent of TV. (I.. love books. Books are also maybe the equivalent of air too. Not sure I'd survive without them.) For my kid, I want them to view them that way too. We don't watch TV during class, we also don't read books in class. I think this sets a fair expectation for grown up life too. You'd be pissed if an employee showed up and started reading midday, right?
waverly, k3am, she has gotten away with this F2F the last 2 years. The only negative I got at conferences last year was that she reads in class and I have to ask her to put the book down but that wasn't an issue because the teacher was happy she was reading. I think I will send a message to her new teacher and let her know what is happening and if there is a way to disable Epic during live instruction. I can control paper books but how I have her facing I can't see what is on her screen and the rest of the class can't see the comings and goings of my office.
We got added to the family seesaw app and I'm the guardian of her google classroom so we get an email on Friday showing all work for the week what was turned in and graded. This morning Ms D told the class that us parents will know if they are doing the stuff she assigns or not.
DD has figured out how to read on Epic while on class zooms. Do I turn her into her teacher? She listens and talks when needed for class and this week is just how things are going to work so I get it isn't interesting but I feel like DD doing this is a bad habit. She did this last spring but she was using a dual monitor so had her library e-book on one monitor and zoom on the other. This year it is all on the Chromebook.
I’m so glad it’s not only my DS who spends all day on epic reading during the class Zoom meetings. I tried to control it, but ultimately I gave up. I cannot sit next to him all day keeping him on task for Zoom school. He goes back in person next week (thank goodness!!) so hopefully it will be better when he’s hopefully more engaged in the classroom.
k3am , I wonder if another parent called the principal?
That's my guess. I am sure she won't believe it was anyone other than me. Which is hard, because clearly I *know* that it wasn't me, so another parent must have called? Which to me, is a sign that there's something going on, but since she likely won't believe it wasn't me, it will be chocked up to that one crazy parent.
We received a message that we are going virtual...tomorrow. Cases in our state and city are exploding so I'm not surprised given I've already had two kids sent home to quarantine in the past three weeks alone. We made it three weeks with hybrid. Our Y has already reached out to parents that they can't support this and will not be taking additional registrations. It sounds like they're disappointed with the district for not partnering with them on how to best serve the community. They're also down teachers due to positives and quarantines. I've been reaching out to contacts for college students but nothing yet so we plan on adjusting schedules to wfh/teach at this point.
waverly, WI. You probably saw us in the news as the next hot spot that should be shutting the state down now. We can't even let the Gov extend a mask mandate....The problem with relying on college students is that there are so many positive cases there.
Oh yeah we were just in Milwaukee, and I was very nervous- wore my mask everywhere. Chicago added you all back to the quarantine list starting this Friday.
In a favorable twist... despite the teacher's protest that she didn't NEED to be having the children submit assignments, and that she has the exact number of assignments as other classes (of which I've seen screen shots and she didn't).. We now have 4 assignments added to the LMS for the week.
I'm still really upset by her call chastising me for "calling the principal" but I'm glad that someone apparently did. It seems to have lead to her (and maybe other teachers at her school) getting the memo that how you taught in person doesn't translate well to teaching remotely. I had never considered switching teachers (and don't want to), but it's nice to see that she is hopefully picking up some best practices from someone.
I honestly have all the sympathy in the world for her. It's hard enough dealing with students on a daily basis, and now she has all of us parents up in her business. And that's all ON TOP of trying to figure out how to do something remotely that has always been entirely in person with very little digital reliance. (And lets be honest.. it's probably the parents that's the worst part.)
mellym, Yes, also in Wisconsin, and it's impressively bad. We never started in person, we are still online until at least October, but I think that it will be longer.
*sob* DD1 woke up with no voice and a cough. She seems completely fine otherwise and I'm sure it's just fall allergies. But off we go today to get her a covid test so she can go back to school.
Also, I just realized... I can't figure out if I was supposed to keep DD2 home or not. She has zero symptoms and our paperwork from school only talks about quarantining siblings with confirmed positive cases. So now I'm freaking out that I just dropped DD2 off and I wasn't supposed to and I look like a jerk.
Side Note: I jokingly told my kids that the covid test means they stick a q-tip up your nose so that it touches your brain. I was joking and laughing as I said it, I figured they knew I was joking since I've had the test. Nope. They totally thought I was serious. Mom of the year over here.
*sob* DD1 woke up with no voice and a cough. She seems completely fine otherwise and I'm sure it's just fall allergies. But off we go today to get her a covid test so she can go back to school.
Also, I just realized... I can't figure out if I was supposed to keep DD2 home or not. She has zero symptoms and our paperwork from school only talks about quarantining siblings with confirmed positive cases. So now I'm freaking out that I just dropped DD2 off and I wasn't supposed to and I look like a jerk.
That was my exact situation with DH. Luckily we had left on Saturday and returned on Monday, and Sunday he did have symptoms. The nanny came on Monday, and he tested Monday with the rapid test. It was an annoying 2 hour wait before they swabbed him but he had his results in 15 minutes. So at least I could figure out if I could go to work on Tuesday. Since it seemed like he was allergic to something where we stayed, I didn’t want to wait 4 days for the results.
waverly I confirmed with the school nurse that DD2 can attend if she's asymptomatic. Doesn't make total sense to me, but I'm not breaking the rules I guess?
I've been avoiding going into the office lately because of my allergies. I know they're allergies, but no one else does, so.. home it is.
A few weeks ago I went into the office and heard someone coughing. Not a "whoops that went down the wrong pipe" cough either. Half of me wanted to hunt them down and tell me to go home, half of me wanted to cower in my office with the door closed. If I knew who it was, I would have told HR and let them deal with it. (Confession.. I have done it before, even when covid didn't exist. I overheard someone saying they thought they had pink eye, but that they were out of sick days so they had to come in. I was not okay with that. A few days later, I got to overhear them say they were pissed someone had "ratted them out." Still didn't feel bad.)
Post by twinmomma on Sept 24, 2020 10:02:54 GMT -5
k3am, I know! Back when I was sick and quarantined in July, even the rapid results test I eventually got took 24 hours to come back. The telemed doc said that because of her age and getting her back to school, they could do the rapid test that only takes 20 minutes to come back. I didn't even know that was a thing! I fully expected to have to wait it out through the weekend.
You guys.. our district tried to open for 100% fulltime instruction in August. Remote learners would get a live stream of the classroom. Our teachers/union said nope, forget that. We all went remote.
They are now talking about the plan for January. I got a preview of what the teachers heard yesterday.. it's a hybrid model, and all remote learners get a live stream of the classroom. And they haven't gotten agreement from the teachers or union.
WTAF? The union is not going to agree to this. I haven't heard of a single teacher who was like "oh yeah, teaching in person and remote learners at once is acceptable" and I can't imagine that any student benefits from it. There are true hybrid options they could have considered that may have worked. They had MONTHS that they could have come up with a viable plan. MONTHS.
k3am- that’s what they did for my 3rd grader and it surprisingly worked really well. I was furious that that was the plan, but they actually pulled it off. All the Zoom kids are in a learning group, and they beam into the class together. Since our 3rd grade teachers rotate to each of 3 classes and team teach all subjects, it works. The only extra work was publishing the agenda on Seesaw and remembering to call on the remote kids. The in person kids already load their work into Seesaw, so it wasn’t a big deal for them.
Parent speculation is that they announced before working with the unions so that if they don't come to agreement, they can just blame the union. I wouldn't be surprised at this point. I honestly have so little faith in our district, I'd believe just about anything at this point.
They spent an hour talking about how they are working "constantly" in contact with public health on reopening plans... but according to one of the moms I know who works FOR PUBLIC HEALTH and liaises daily with their school reopening task force, that is a lie.
The issue in our district is that there’s absolutely zero instruction on the non in person days, and the teachers have to prepare separate work packets for at home days. So i think they may actually prefer the model yours wants to do. I know I would.
The issue in our district is that there’s absolutely zero instruction on the non in person days, and the teachers have to prepare separate work packets for at home days. So i think they may actually prefer the model yours wants to do. I know I would.
I would be fine with it.. if you know, they got buy off from the teachers and union so that they could actually do it. My expectation is that before we reopen, it’s off the table. Again.
You guys.. our district tried to open for 100% fulltime instruction in August. Remote learners would get a live stream of the classroom. Our teachers/union said nope, forget that. We all went remote.
They are now talking about the plan for January. I got a preview of what the teachers heard yesterday.. it's a hybrid model, and all remote learners get a live stream of the classroom. And they haven't gotten agreement from the teachers or union.
WTAF? The union is not going to agree to this. I haven't heard of a single teacher who was like "oh yeah, teaching in person and remote learners at once is acceptable" and I can't imagine that any student benefits from it. There are true hybrid options they could have considered that may have worked. They had MONTHS that they could have come up with a viable plan. MONTHS.
I am floored that school districts are even considering this. How hard is it to talk to a single person and see that this isn’t working anywhere?! You need a new plan, peeps.
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