Should schools just have a "do over" year?

[monsterkitty]

I've read that many cable/internet companies are turning internet on for low income families right now for free or offering up hot spots for free. Also, don't know if this possible in your area but I was reading here in IN a school district was outfitting school buses as Wi-Fi hot spots and parking them around in areas that would be in need of internet. I thought that was crazy smart use of resources at this point.

This is what our district is doing. They are also using the busses to deliver breakfast and lunch because these are the only two meals that many of our students get.

 

[jcourtney]

What if they want to go to college outside of Saskatchewan?

Colleges and Universities Canada-wide all admit based High School grades (not SAT). Student's will get a final grade so they should be fully admissible anywhere. Though it might be hard on the students who could have brought their grade up and didn't get the chance.

 

[mefordis]

Our schools are doing homeschooling which counts for the year. No do over necessary.

 

[monsterkitty]

My state counts minutes not days for the school year. Different levels have different minute requirements. However, it adds up to around 180 days.

We do not have early release days and only take the minimum of holidays: Labor Day Thanksgiving, Winter Break, MLK, Presidents' Day, and a Spring Break. They did give us a fall break this year because the kids usually go from Labor Day to Thanksgiving with no days off. Our fall break was 2 days in October. It was glorious! We do not do staff development days or planning days off. Our bell schedule starts at 8:05 and ends at 4:05.

If you add all of this time up, we teach 18 days over the 180 required. We've had only 2 snow days so far, so we would be at 16 days over the state requirements by the end of the year. Our kids need it. Not because they are behind, but they need school and everything that comes with it.

In the district I teach in we had 44 days left in the school year. Of those 44 days, 8.5 of them were testing days. One other days is class field trip day, where each grade level has a field trip and all are on the same day. That is 9.5 days of "non-learning".

In the case of my district, yes kids are missing sitting in class, but we are still doing work through video and our district program that they developed several years ago. But what they have missed thus far does not constitute redoing the entire year.

 

[lynxstch]

This is what our district is doing. They are also using the busses to deliver breakfast and lunch because these are the only two meals that many of our students get.

That is what they were doing in MD and WV earlier in this mess, but they had to stop doing it this week. I forget the reason they gave. They just announced during a news break, that MD schools are closed for another month. We have granddaughters in MD who will be out for that month, and we have 3 others who live in WV and they are uncertain at this time what they are going to do about the school year.

 

[buzznina]

No in as many ways that you can say it! Maybe if they were in the first semester, but definitely not after completing 3 semesters.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Nope

 

[Lilsia]

Agreeing, as well. People do not have the right to judge others for their disappointments. Missing graduation is a huge deal. Prom, summer vacations, birthday parties, whatever. It is more than ok to be upset about life events being canceled.

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

 

[Always teaching]

No. Our district finished 75% of the year. I can't justify redoing a year for a quarter of it. We're doing online instruction to keep kids going until if/when we return this year.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

I put a sad face because I totally get the down in the dumps feeling of missing these things and and agree with what you're saying

 

[NYCgrrl]

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

Here's hoping she can still go whether the date is changed or not

 

[SaintsManiac]

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

I’m so sorry for her. You work so hard to get to this big, huge moment and now this.

 

[mom2rtk]

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

I really keep hoping they can find a way to salvage these life events, even if it means holding them at the end of summer.

 

[Donald13]

No not a chance

 

[Snowysmom]

Definitely no.

 

[Bamaclan4]

Well Alabama just officially went to home based school for the remainder of the. I’m devastated.

 

[Kitty 34]

Well Alabama just officially went to home based school for the remainder of the. I’m devastated.

So they've been in school this whole time?

 

[pryncess527]

I said this in another thread, but it’s more relevant here.


Because of quality/access/fairness issues, Oregon & Washington didn’t try to go online. (or so I gather, I do not have children)


I’m not sure what the end result of that will be, or how school days will be made up or just waived? I can appreciate that they didn’t trivialize the choice though. I’ve worked with people trying to develop an online class and it’s not something you do overnight — it takes months of prep work to make a good online class. I can’t imagine the most school system were ready to just flip the switch & provide equal quality education, or even close.

I don’t think that the school year should be redone, but I’m also not sure that the majority of kids are getting any, much less than adequate level, instruction from their parents at home based on what their teachers could throw together in the blink of an eye

 

[LilyWDW]

This is my daughter. She is a senior this year and all of that, prom, graduation, etc is up in the air. It might not mean much to most of us, but she was looking forward to these life events. We were about to go prom dress shopping when all of this happened. It is sad.

I feel so bad for your daughter and for all the others who will miss things like this.

I HATE when people try to act like you can't be sad about these things because other people have it worse. It's okay to be upset and sad. Yes, people are dying, but that doesn't make what you are feeling any less real or important.

 

[MGMmjl]

So they've been in school this whole time?

No, they've been closed the past couple of weeks with a preliminary re-opening date of April 6th. They announced today the home-based schooling aspect would begin on April 6th with schools closed the rest of the school year.