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"I'm amazed how dismissive all the comments are here" The contrarian dynamic strikes again: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
"An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition." "No it isn't."
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I run my own business. Been a web consultant / developer for over 17 years. I have a pretty steady clientele right now. I work 6 to 9am, then 10-11pm, and I usually get a hour or two in during the day. Plus I work 6am to 10am weekends, maybe more if my wife isn't tired and hangs out with the kids on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
You essentially work a half day. Burying the lede here a bit.
So, no. I do NOT just work a half-day, I prioritize, I multi-task, and it's very difficult to maintain this lifestyle.
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But what about children in Australia, where remote teaching has been done for many years? Are they all somehow specially gifted children, so that they manage?
Can you say more about the format of remote learning in Australia? Age ranges? How much video per day? In my school district, they are looking at 4 hours (2, 2-hour blocks) of "live learning" in-person per day, for 5-6 year olds. I can't imagine they're doing that in Oz?
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> When my parents were kids, they only went to kindergarten for half a day. Wait, hang on, is kindergarten all-day now? I was in kindergarten in... 1992, and it was half a day.
Some places are sending 3-4 year olds to all day pre-k now too. We're working too much and public schools have become free day care systems.
Kids can't learn all day long in a classroom. I don't know why we expect them to be able to do it remotely. School has always been 1/3 learning 2/3 baby sitting. When my parents were kids, they only went to kindergarten for half a day.
(for the life of me, I can't recall what we did on rainy days)
Online instructional hours doesn't begin in their school until 1st grade. Kindergarten has learning materials sent to the homes.
Online virtual pre-K is just lunacy.
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But what about children in Australia, where remote teaching has been done for many years? Are they all somehow specially gifted children, so that they manage?
Can you say more about the format of remote learning in Australia? Age ranges? How much video per day? In my school district, they are looking at 4 hours (2, 2-hour blocks) of "live learning" in-person per day, for 5-6 year olds. I can't imagine they're doing that in Oz?
It was 1 way or 2 way radio back in the day, now wiki says it’s 1 way video stream with 2 way voice.
From wiki... “ Each student typically spends one hour per day receiving group or individual lessons from the teacher, and the rest of the day working through the assigned materials with a parent, older sibling or a hired home-stay tutor.”
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I don't want to say Americans don't love and cherish their children. But the uncomfortable truth is that our culture has become so materialist that, on a mass scale, when we look at our children, we don't really see the people they are now. We see the economic participants they will be in 15 years.
I think it's a bit different. This forcing of academics into Kindergarten is more of a panic reaction to the overall low quality of the American education system. Unfortunately, this reaction ignores cognitive science for a try-harder approach. It isn't about materialism or care. It's about having education driven by supposition instead of evidence and what we know works. Phonics would still be core to early curricul…
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You essentially work a half day. Burying the lede here a bit.
I never get to stop working, but thanks. Every day, all day, I get email and have to respond to a vast customer base. While I may not be coding away at my computer, I have to stop about 10 times a day to respond to customers, help them solve a problem, make an update, etc. It never ends, I never get vacation, I never get a weekend, I never get a holiday. I literally had a customer call me on Christmas last year becau…
Don't see how being "forced to sit in front of a screen" is any different from being forced to sit in a classroom. Honestly think if a single good thing comes out of all of this it will be the rethinking of schooling. If I have kids no way will I risk their raw potential at the hands of what is currently considered a teacher.
>Don't see how being "forced to sit in front of a screen" is any different from being forced to sit in a classroom. Really? I mean, I'm not for public schools, but this is a little obtuse don't you think?
Look at how much we medicate kids just to sit there nicely and be quiet and don't fidget in a class, follow the justification backwards and all you get to is that schools don't know how to deal with how young boys deal with boredom.
School should teach real skills, how to do your own research and how to create something from nothing and the rest will fall into place.