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Call it the COVID Slide. This was last spring in the 10 weeks when schools shut down and went online. The percentage was greater for minority students. Make a school system go virtual for a full year and there will be a huge number of kids falling behind. Minority kids. And then what will they say?

Warning of "COVID slide," Texas Education Agency reports 1 in 10 students have disengaged during the pandemic

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/30/texas-students-coronavirus/

 

Good thing I don't like WalMart, won't be going there

 

I can assure you the number was much higher than 1 in 10. I would venture that, perhaps, only 1 in 10 truly engaged.

I was on my parent advisory committee meeting last night, and the district is moving ahead as if there will be a football season with bands, cheerleaders, drill teams, and fans....socially distanced, of course.

Now...for an interesting question, how are the officials realistically going to keep the kiddos socially distanced at Plano Senior High football games?

My daughter is a sophomore, so still at a high school and won't be a PSHS student until next year. But anybody who is anybody from PSHS, Vines, and Clark ( the feeder 9/10 high schools) use Friday Night Lights to socialize their butts off. My younger daughter hates football (I know. I failed.) But she doesn't miss a home football game.

 

I dont get the "anti-" school in all of this. The data is clear kids aren't getting, spreading, and dying from this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...-kids-less-likely-to-catch-it-than-adults-are

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-schools-evidence-kids-coronavirus.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...n-don-t-spread-coronavirus-french-study-shows

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9

 

"When you eliminate all other possibilities what ever is left, no matter how unlikely is the truth"

 

In the case of school the risk of no having class is much greater than the risk of spreading the disease. Losing a semester (already done) or a year + can be catastrophic. Studies show that kids regress during the summer. What will happen if they lose a year? What happens when they lose a year of socialization? Kids have too much solitude as it is for growing up healthy.
The added side effects on parents no being able to work or having to learn to actually teach a series of subjects will also be damaging.
We need schools to start or the country will pay with compound interest for years.

 

If you believe what you posted tell us again why you hate Trump?

 

I am not in Texas and have never taught there. Having said that, in North Carolina we would celebrate that only 1 in 10 were disengaged during a normal school year.

Charitably I’d say 30 - 40% are not engaged, and another 30% are marginal on a day to day basis.

The harsh, unprintable reality is that the 30 - 40% that are engaged (or put another way, whose parents give a shit) will be fine regardless of method. That’s not a whole lot less than in normal times. The bottom 40% will stay there, leaving, an unadmitable reality of no more than 20% in play.

Instead of wailing about how bad it will be, we need to get on these students arses about nutting up. Welcome to the real world. They got a shitty break with Covid; too bad. Get to work.

 

Are you English? I always liked the way the British say arse

 

Lived there about four years while in navy. I still have trouble with a lot spellings . . .defence vs. defense, for example.