For parents who can afford it, a solution for fall: Bring the teachers to them

[Mosby]

Fed up with remote education, parents who can pay have a new plan for fall: import teachers to their homes.

This goes beyond tutoring. In some cases, families are teaming up to form “pandemic pods,” where clusters of students receive professional instruction for several hours each day. It’s a 2020 version of the one-room schoolhouse, privately funded.

Weeks before the new school year will start, the trend is a stark sign of how the pandemic will continue to drive inequity in the nation’s education system. But the parents planning or considering this say it’s an extreme answer to an extreme situation.

With novel coronavirus infections rising in large swaths of the country, school districts in many big cities and suburbs are planning to start the fall with distance learning, either every day or for part of the week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/fall-remote-private-teacher-pods/2020/07/17/9956ff28-c77f-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

[a la izquierda]

1. Ugh. And inequality in education marches on.

I don’t have a solution. I teach college and it should be online, but it’s not.

[jimfields33]

4. Parents need help!

Some parents are not equipped to teach so they get someone else to do it. I’m don’t see what the objection is unless you want all the kids back in school. Hmmmm.

[a la izquierda]

6. Did you read the part about it costing money?

Or did you skip over that?

[jimfields33]

7. You expect the teacher to work for free? I'm for the workers. Sorry!

[sarisataka]

8. The school where my wife works

is over a third ESL students. Their parents are first generation immigrants who often speak little to no English.

They do not have money to adequately feed themselves let alone hire private teachers.

The choices the school is considering is to teach remotely, which everyone agrees is extremely ineffective for young ESL students, come to school and risk Covid or skip a year putting the students father behind their peers and hope next year is better.

Any suggestions?

[jimfields33]

9. On line school has been a success for some

Why not give it a chance? You are assuming it won’t work. Where are the facts if fails?

[sarisataka]

10. The school switched to a remote learning model in February

and completed the year with no students in the school.

The faculty estimated (they were unable to give the standardized tests) there was an average reduction of performance of 10-15%. It was not evenly distributed however. The top students scores remained at, or very near, their in school levels. Mid-level students saw larger decreases. The ESL and other students with learning challenges saw the greatest drops in their performance.

The school is re-evaluating their remote teaching as it is possible the choice will not be theirs to make. The governor may not allow in school learning beginning in the fall. At this time however the teachers have no reason to expect the trend to continue if teaching must be done remotely. Those with the greatest challenges will continue to fall further behind their peers.

The other side of the coin is that Covid is a serious concern. Several teachers and staff members, including my wife, have health issues that place them in high risk categories. They are very aware that them may be literally putting their lives at risk by bringing the students into the building.

[jimfields33]

11. I read that they may stop the everyone graduates from high school at 18.

I think the entire education system will be revamped. It needs to be. Kids are not the same and expecting that is not working.

[a la izquierda]

12. I'm a professor.

I want students to have equal opportunities.
Catch yourself on. My friends who are teachers think this is shit for the rich.
Kindly fuck off.

[jimfields33]

13. Professor? Lol. No way does a professor talk that way.

You can bash it all day but it’s happening. Uh oh....

[a la izquierda]

14. Oh my god seriously piss off.

Thanks for the comic relief. I grew up in New Jersey. We swear. Especially when confronted by fucking morons who know fuck all about education. Or class issues.
Signed
Michele, PhD

ETA I don’t often call people out for their time on DU, but I’ve been here since 2004, many people know what I do. So take your sanctimony and mansplaining and stuff it where the sun don’t shine.

[jimfields33]

15. Fine. Will do.

But remember you replied to me!!!!! I did not initiate.

[a la izquierda]

16. Naaaaah I didn't.

I commented on the original post and you had a heart attack about it. Because parents.
I know loads of parents who are sending their kids to school because they can’t afford private tutors.
Know your audience before you spout off.

[jimfields33]

17. Enough!

[a la izquierda]

18. You can block me.

But you DO NOT get to tell me when it’s enough. I actually happen to have a very personal and professional input as to this issue and I’m fighting with a troll.
What the fuck is wrong with you?

[jimfields33]

19. Nope. Never blocked anyone

So we disagree on something big deal. Tomorrow you may provide something that’s informative. Why miss it?

[Nevilledog]

2. And it would kill public education.

Schools are funded by number of students.

[crickets]

3. Misguided. 'Clusters' can harbor and transmit germs just as well as classroom environments.

Will these private teachers be on lockdown? No? Just as likely to infect your kids as anyone else from outside the home. All of this misses the point that people need to stay away from one another, period, and that donny & betsy are failing parents, children, and everyone involved in education by insisting that schools open during a pandemic.

[jimfields33]

5. The rule is no more then 10 people, 6-feet apart.

Sounds like they will keep within the regulations.