Many of us have thought that something has got to give before we completely lose our shit.
In an ideal world, our kids could go through their work on their own, completing tasks, staying organized, and actually learning something. However, the reality is that our kids, no matter their age, are going to need some adult guidance, including explanations and reminders. Furthermore,. There’s a lot of hand-holding, with no special education teacher, speech therapist, or reading specialist swooping in to save us.
I hadn’t considered that outright shunning distance learning was even an option until I saw Sarah Parcak’s viral tweet. Parcak has an impressive resume. She’s a professor, an Egyptologist, and mom of a first grader. She posted on Twitter that she wrote an e-mail to her son’s “lovely, kind, caring” teacher that her son was “done with the 1grade.” She added, “We cannot cope with this insanity. Survival and protecting his well being come first.
We just wrote a hard email. I told our son’s teacher that, no, we will not be participating in her “virtual classroom”, and that he was done with the 1st grade. We cannot cope with this insanity. Survival and protecting his well being come first.When I initially learned that some parents were ditching school completely, my type A, anxiety-ridden self was taken aback. I’m a rule follower, a former educator, and a mom of four.
Katie Waite is a ninth-grade teacher and mom of a kindergartner. Waite decided that her son would not be participating in distance learning. Waite toldthat part of her choice is out of necessity. Her teaching responsibilities come first. She’s aware of the concepts her child needs to learn and is choosing to teach him in a format that doesn’t involve, in her words, “unnecessary technology for his age.
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