All Cobb Co. Schools Closed.

[troutman]

Nope, still have to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the 40% or more kids in the "lunch" assistance group.

I understand the animosity about our tax dollars paying for breakfast and lunch for these kids. BUT, it's not the kids fault that their parents are deadbeats. My wife is an administrator for a school system and has been helping to deliver food to the kids. She said that for a lot of these kids, this is pretty much all they get to eat during the day.

 

[41mag]

Yep , you would be surprised at the number of so called “good parents” send their kids out the door in the morning to school on an empty stomach.
Makes you sick to think about it.
I am not a socialist type of person at all. I loathe the fact that the government hands stuff to folks with little to no impunity.
But we live in the richest country in the world. We have the most tech advancements of any nation. We have some of the most prime farmland in the world. There is simply NO reason any child be hungry in the USA.

 

[spencer60]

Honestly, I've gotten almost all my technical training online for the last decade or so. These are typically week-long, detailed technical courses with labs and lecture.

Getting a company to fly you to a course and put you up for a week just so you can sit in a classroom stopped making sense around 2000 or so. Even a local course here in the area are more hassle than they are worth.

The only issue that virtual learning has is the same one as home schooling, and that's getting kids together to socialize. Homeschoolers have been dealing with this problem for 50 years, so I don't see it as being insurmountable.

As for the school=babysitter problem... Well, all those lunch ladies will need the work. Sounds like babysitting will be the next Uber.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Honestly, I've gotten almost all my technical training online for the last decade or so. These are typically week-long, detailed technical courses with labs and lecture.

Getting a company to fly you to a course and put you up for a week just so you can sit in a classroom stopped making sense around 2000 or so. Even a local course here in the area are more hassle than they are worth.

The only issue that virtual learning has is the same one as home schooling, and that's getting kids together to socialize. Homeschoolers have been dealing with this problem for 50 years, so I don't see it as being insurmountable.

As for the school=babysitter problem... Well, all those lunch ladies will need the work. Sounds like babysitting will be the next Uber.

Right, but you're comparing adult, continuing education to primary or secondary, formative education. There is a world of difference between an educated adult taking an online course to supplement current knowledge and a young child learning how to read or balance equations through a computer screen.

 

[BattleSausage]

Right, but you're comparing adult, continuing education to primary or secondary, formative education. There is a world of difference between an educated adult taking an online course to supplement current knowledge and a young child learning how to read or balance equations through a computer screen.

Hit the nail on head, and many children simply don’t learn well that way. My daughter does much better with in person instruction much like my wife, whereas my son is like me and can just watch a video or peruse a book and pick up on the material.

 

[spencer60]

I could see some kids doing better (or worse) in a classroom scenario rather than with a good virtual setup.

Again if you go back to home-schooling it seems like this would be a half-step between regular school and home-schooling. It requires more support from the parents, but not anywhere the same as it would to have that same parent home-school a child.

I do see the point that older kinds would be better at working virtually than younger kids though.

 

[MacTavish]

Set up the classroom outside on the gridiron with the desks 7' apart for aisle space. Teacher will use PA system.
Classes will be held rain or shine, hot or cold.

 

[Snack]

I see a lot of straight A's in the future for most Cobb county kids

 

[MRH]

Hit the nail on head, and many children simply don’t learn well that way. My daughter does much better with in person instruction much like my wife, whereas my son is like me and can just watch a video or peruse a book and pick up on the material.

Girls are better than boys at sitting still, being good, listening and learning in a classroom. The traditional classroom setting is an outdated concept for boys, IMO. Too many very smart boys simply cannot sit still and stay quiet for 8 hours, and they fall behind because of it. They are bored to death. JMO, but not an uninformed opinion.

 

[MRM]

Girls are better than boys at sitting still, being good, listening and learning in a classroom. The traditional classroom setting is an outdated concept for boys, IMO. Too many very smart boys simply cannot sit still and stay quiet for 8 hours, and they fall behind because of it. They are bored to death. JMO, but not an uninformed opinion.

My older brother skipped the 5th grade. He did much better after that.