Some people on this thread are Darwinism in motion. ANYWAY...
So I was thinking, there has to be some halfway house answer to helping schools chug through peak infection season. A pared down timetable, the other time spent on home learning which doesn’t rely solely on internet technology (maybe teachers creating a DVD of classes or something) but is still
checked and marked work to ensure kids are keeping up.
Schools need a teacher for each year group dedicated to producing and co-ordinating the home learning side, freeing up in-class teachers. This also ensures work is on tap if a bubble has to close.
It is far from ideal but last lockdown highlighted that children suffer from a lack of social interaction, teachers were under prepared for giving and checking work, there was too much reliance on online learning which affected the disadvantaged and poorer children and parents were stressed to high heaven trying to juggle everything so many gave up. Teachers are still playing catch up and there is a huge range of ability per age group.
Something, in my opinion, is better than nothing. There also needs to be more transparency from schools as to the programme of what is being taught and when so parents have an idea of where their kids should be at.
So I was thinking, there has to be some halfway house answer to helping schools chug through peak infection season. A pared down timetable, the other time spent on home learning which doesn’t rely solely on internet technology (maybe teachers creating a DVD of classes or something) but is still
checked and marked work to ensure kids are keeping up.
Schools need a teacher for each year group dedicated to producing and co-ordinating the home learning side, freeing up in-class teachers. This also ensures work is on tap if a bubble has to close.
It is far from ideal but last lockdown highlighted that children suffer from a lack of social interaction, teachers were under prepared for giving and checking work, there was too much reliance on online learning which affected the disadvantaged and poorer children and parents were stressed to high heaven trying to juggle everything so many gave up. Teachers are still playing catch up and there is a huge range of ability per age group.
Something, in my opinion, is better than nothing. There also needs to be more transparency from schools as to the programme of what is being taught and when so parents have an idea of where their kids should be at.
I love a good theory but my tolerance of bat crazy is currently zero. I now have to choose between Bake Off and BoJo so I ain’t happy today. One little glimmer of escapism stolen 
