For rest of year, doing online
District is north of Dallas
District is north of Dallas
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Last: 6 yr ago by Bocephus
They have one to one technology for grades 3-12. May make things a bit easier 3-6 iPads, 7-12 Chromebooks.
K-12 Lessons will be provided for online learning
K-12 Lessons will be provided for online learning
Dallas ISD shutting down the rest of the year as well. Assuming going online
Houston area schools through the 10th I guess, but I would not be shocked if they shut down the rest of the year as well.
Houston area schools through the 10th I guess, but I would not be shocked if they shut down the rest of the year as well.
How will households with both parents working handle this? Someone needs to be home with the kid taking them through the lesson. I assume day cares will shut down as well, otherwise closing school won't make much of a difference in spreading the virus.
This is what I'm wondering. My wife and I both work, and neither of us are in jobs that will be put on hold until this goes away. I can't exactly work from home. She can to an extent, but not every day. Retired Grandparents are hours away and no other family close by to help out. How the f are we supposed to make this work? A 7 year old and a 2 year old can't stay home by themselves.
Good question. Will be in that boat next week, though kids are a little older (twins in 7th, one in 5th) at a classical school that has never incorporated tech into the school.Johnny04 said:
How will households with both parents working handle this? Someone needs to be home with the kid taking them through the lesson. I assume day cares will shut down as well, otherwise closing school won't make much of a difference in spreading the virus.
RISD isn't closed for the year...yet. Closed indefinitely, but they are going to try to reopen.
Was talking to a guy whose son is in kindergarten. What do you really learn online there? Treating others with respect, keeping your hands to yourself, standing in a line, cleaning up after yourself are not exactly online courses.
Well that assumes that we aren't all still on social restriction.Johnny04 said:
How will households with both parents working handle this? Someone needs to be home with the kid taking them through the lesson. I assume day cares will shut down as well, otherwise closing school won't make much of a difference in spreading the virus.
My company has us working from home. So my husband and I are pulling "Shifts" as it were.
I am getting up at 4am to work until 11am. Lunch for the kiddo while being available for meetings in the afternoon.
My husband is heading off to the job site from 12 pm unill 7pm. He is available for meetings in the morning.
The result, Kiddo does school and is well cared for while we both juggle.
The hubs does breakfast shift and I do lunch and dinner.
Hubs puts our kiddo to bed while I put myself to bed.
Each day we coordinate our schedules and block out times on our calendars when we won't be available.
Just today I have blocked out my work time and My son's lunch and outdoor time with me.
My husband has blocked out breakfast and out door time with him.
It will look different for all families but if we have all been sent home it won't really matter. My husband and I are also discussing home schooling our son if we come out of this financially unscathed since we have discovered that public school doesn't move at a fast or deep enough pace for our son at the moment.
http://www.richardson.k12.tx.us/
Here is their website. It is closed indefinitely, like most other districts in the area. It is not closed the rest of the year, school or calendar, based on their site.
Here is their website. It is closed indefinitely, like most other districts in the area. It is not closed the rest of the year, school or calendar, based on their site.
Johnny04 said:
How will households with both parents working handle this? Someone needs to be home with the kid taking them through the lesson. I assume day cares will shut down as well, otherwise closing school won't make much of a difference in spreading the virus.
I cant speak for the youngest grades. But 3rd grade and up should be both self directed and teacher monitored. That's how online education works. If the kids are using school issued devices there shouldn't be a need for super close monitoring by parents. The districts aren't asking parents to become teachers. The technology and communication between teachers and students within the technology should be all that's required.
If you think that's what the kindergarten curriculum consists of, then you haven't kept up with kindergarten. It's more like what we experienced in first and second grade in the 70s.Bocephus said:
Was talking to a guy whose son is in kindergarten. What do you really learn online there? Treating others with respect, keeping your hands to yourself, standing in a line, cleaning up after yourself are not exactly online courses.
I'm not saying online learning is ideal for them, but it is what it is now.
cc_ag92 said:If you think that's what the kindergarten curriculum consists of, then you haven't kept up with kindergarten. It's more like what we experienced in first and second grade in the 70s.Bocephus said:
Was talking to a guy whose son is in kindergarten. What do you really learn online there? Treating others with respect, keeping your hands to yourself, standing in a line, cleaning up after yourself are not exactly online courses.
I'm not saying online learning is ideal for them, but it is what it is now.
I imagine they learn colors, shapes, alphabet, numbers, sight words, addition and subtraction. Still does not change the point of my post.
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