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'Pod'-style learning benefits affluent kids and exacerbates education inequality

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Posted By: jeffinitely, 7/28/2020 2:51:02 AM

With the pandemic still raging, many schools across the country are opting not to reopen full-time. Some are switching to full-time online instruction, and others are opting for hybrid models where students attend school a few days a week and spend the rest learning at home

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Racism! Hire more teachers! (of course, need more individualized brain-washing in public schools)

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Reply 1 - Posted by: anniebc 7/28/2020 3:59:03 AM (No. 492600)
"Fair compensation" has little correlation to good teachers. Why is the answer always more money? Less than affluent parents who want their children properly educated can figure it out just like affluent parents. People who don't have the issue should not have to pay for an issue others can pay for themselves. Why must we sacrifice when they won't? Those parents who are poorly educated themselves and stay home collecting welfare or are unemployed should see this as an opportunity to learn with their children. Lastly, these are the people who should be protesting the excessive COVID responses demanding that their children go back to school. There are great teachers and administrators out there--I know many--but the current education system (elementary to college) is failing children.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623 7/28/2020 4:01:53 AM (No. 492601)
The new overused word of 2020 is "Inequality" First it was 'wealth inequality' then 'racial inequality' now we moved onto 'education inequality' On the list under 'demand'
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Reply 3 - Posted by: franq 7/28/2020 6:09:36 AM (No. 492629)
My wife and I are so thankful for the education we received in the '70s. No PC (well, some enviro hysteria in Social Studies), no students roaming the halls without fear of detention - lots of electives. We probably got more than college kids today.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 7/28/2020 7:01:23 AM (No. 492647)
Translation: let's prevent any kids from getting a decent education because that is unfair to those kids who don't.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: edgar 7/28/2020 7:21:46 AM (No. 492658)
#1. Better qualified candidates will seek higher paying jobs. Right now, those jobs are not in education, for most of the country. Who wants to teach in rural counties where the pay is even lower? But like in any field, there are good, better and worse people at all jobs. Merit pay works in the private sector but has been shunned by our education system, so poor performers do not face consequences. It is not a solution, but merit pay would be a step in the right direction.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: lakerman1 7/28/2020 7:31:51 AM (No. 492666)
Back around the 1980s, I recall reading about a conference of educators examining Sesame Street. There was agreement that Sesame Street did a good job in preparing pre-schooler minority children for Kindergarten. The problem was, according to the participants, was that Sesame Street also prepared white pre schoolers for Kindergarten. Believe it or not, the discussion turned into figuring out a strategy to stop white pre-schoolers from watching Sesame Street! The participants gave up on that when Joan (somebody) who I believe produced Sesame Street, pointed out that it was shown on PUBLIC TV! I thought of that conference when I read this article.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/28/2020 7:49:52 AM (No. 492675)
The could bar affluent kids from attending school and only allow unaffluent kids to go to school to see if that would equalize things. It won't, but it makes as much sense as typical leftist solutions. Maybe they could tie one arm behind the backs of the affluent kids.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jalo1951 7/28/2020 8:06:32 AM (No. 492691)
Unfortunately a lot of people in the black community look at being well educated a “white thing”. They do not engage in their own education because they don’t want to and don’t have to. School is all about babysitting and the free meals. It has nothing to do with knowledge. And it shows. So what’s the problem? They are getting out of it exactly what they are putting into it. Exactly nothing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Daisymay 7/28/2020 8:30:03 AM (No. 492707)
Personally, I'm sick and tired of the Whining by Teachers. It's your JOB to got o school and teach. Do you think the Police, Firefighters, nurses, doctors, Pharmacy Tecs, grocery store checkers...and on and on, had a CHOICE about going to work? NO! They didn't! They were considered "Essential workers". So they put on their big girl/boy pants and did their JOB! Teachers should do the same. Jeesh! They're going to be around kids all day long (who are not considered able to get or transmit the Virus). Go to school! Do your job!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bad-hair 7/28/2020 8:54:28 AM (No. 492742)
How is this any different from the expensive private schools that the likes of politicians kids attend ?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: gramma b 7/28/2020 8:54:49 AM (No. 492743)
So dedicated parents who work hard to provide for their kids should not be allowed to do more for them than the stupidest, most drug addled welfare queen does for hers?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Mofongo 7/28/2020 9:17:33 AM (No. 492772)
Good grief!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: kono 7/28/2020 9:30:14 AM (No. 492799)
'Pod'-style learning benefits affluent kids and exacerbates education inequality You mean the process can tell who's affluent and who's not, to be able to benefit the former but not the latter? Or is it like a kid whose mother makes a treat for him at school having it taken away because he didn't bring enough for the whole class?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bighambone 7/28/2020 11:16:20 AM (No. 492926)
There was a Public School teacher on TV the other day and she remarked that since distance internet learning began, that teachers have not even heard from about 25% of their former classroom students nor have those students been participating in anyway in distance learning. Since low income and minority families tend to be larger with more kids, they would need a separate internet connected computer for each of their children to participate in internet base distance learning. I don’t think that very many of those families have the money to go out and purchase a computer for each of their children. That’s just one reason why schools should re-open.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MDConservative 7/28/2020 11:25:16 AM (No. 492931)
It's apparently the new American destiny to find the lowest common social denominator, and use that as the goal for everything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DARling 7/28/2020 4:16:20 PM (No. 493128)
I knew many working class families who sacrificed in order to send their children to private schools. The SJWs and the education establishment are shivering in their boots because they know their liberal monopoly is about to crash and burn. They do not seem to grasp how selfish they sound, blaming caring parents for improvising in order to further their children's education. They really do think all children should be ignorant if every child can't be educated in the same way.
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