10-30-2019, 09:22 AM
Something a little lighter.
A friend is running for school board in her district. She shared a story about one school suggesting that rather than have "snow days" students could continue to work on school stuff online.
Now personally I think it's a good idea. Our district supplies laptops and they use fewer and fewer books. Some of the teachers are still sticking to their old ways with the outdated textbooks but for the most part everything our son does in online.
This would also keep the school year from stretching further and further into June.
But one of the responses to her post struck me. A woman said that until the school district started paying for her internet she would oppose the idea. And I started wondering if that means she doesn't let he children use the internet for homework, research, etc.
Is that part of the problem with education today? I mean OBVIOUSLY parents who don't take educations seriously would be part of the problem, bit I mean people like this woman who have no problem paying for the internet to stream movies, play games, etc but thinks that if her children use it for their education a couple days out of the year the school should pay her for it.
We have this amazing resource and it gives us the ability to do amazing things and instead we only want entertainment.
Entertainment is great! I used to read the Weekly World News back in the day and I always called it "candy for my brain". It was a treat to get me away from whatever I was reading to learn or further educate myself on some topic. However if that is ALL we want to do we are doomed.
And I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that some people feel that way in general but on this specific topic I was was. I hope it would be a minority opinion.
Anyone else?
A friend is running for school board in her district. She shared a story about one school suggesting that rather than have "snow days" students could continue to work on school stuff online.
Now personally I think it's a good idea. Our district supplies laptops and they use fewer and fewer books. Some of the teachers are still sticking to their old ways with the outdated textbooks but for the most part everything our son does in online.
This would also keep the school year from stretching further and further into June.
But one of the responses to her post struck me. A woman said that until the school district started paying for her internet she would oppose the idea. And I started wondering if that means she doesn't let he children use the internet for homework, research, etc.
Is that part of the problem with education today? I mean OBVIOUSLY parents who don't take educations seriously would be part of the problem, bit I mean people like this woman who have no problem paying for the internet to stream movies, play games, etc but thinks that if her children use it for their education a couple days out of the year the school should pay her for it.
We have this amazing resource and it gives us the ability to do amazing things and instead we only want entertainment.
Entertainment is great! I used to read the Weekly World News back in the day and I always called it "candy for my brain". It was a treat to get me away from whatever I was reading to learn or further educate myself on some topic. However if that is ALL we want to do we are doomed.
And I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that some people feel that way in general but on this specific topic I was was. I hope it would be a minority opinion.
Anyone else?
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