"No dragging kids out of bed before daybreak. No wrestling them into proper clothes. No getting them to the bus stop as one’s own work waited. 'You were able to just do the things you needed to do,' Johnson said. 'Everybody was comfortable. It was, "I can go to my computer, my baby is in my room on the computer. We’re good."' After that hiatus, relearning old behaviors was hard. 'If I were a child, and I could stay at home on my computer, in my room, and play with my little toys on the side, pick up the game for your break or lunchtime, how hard is it to sit in a school building for seven hours?' she said. 'It takes us to help build those habits, and I don’t think just one person can do it alone.' Some parents, unimpressed by what instruction consisted of during remote learning, didn’t see missing school as that consequential. Some simply liked having their kids around."
Writes Alec MacGillis, in
"Has School Become Optional? In the past few years, chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled. The fight to get students back in classrooms has only just begun" (The New Yorker).
"Johnson" = Shepria Johnson, employed by Concentric Education Solutions, which contracts with school districts to make home visits to families with truant children.
Interesting detail: "Concentric hired dozens of employees, many of them young Black college graduates. It gave them two weeks of training, which included instruction as basic as how to knock on doors. 'I tell everyone, "Knock a little harder, but don’t knock like the police,"' a Concentric manager said."
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The biggest losers from Covid were grade school kids. They were forced to wear worthless masks when they were allowed to attend school. An unforced error of epic magnitude.
The definitive study of studies is out and it proves that masks were worthless on kids.
Some parents, unimpressed by what instruction consisted of during remote learning, didn’t see missing school as that consequential. Some simply liked having their kids around."
best argument for home schooling.. Ever?
And Trans Pride warrior teachers say: Hold my beer!
Before the iPhone (2007), society functioned "mostly" on visible and shared follow-the-leader public behaviors. This included movies, TV, concerts, and large gatherings. With smartphones, many naturally extraverted people suddenly became nerds fixated on private phone activities rather than the immediate social context. They lost their natural leadership hierarchy and wrote covfefe a lot. The nerds were unaffected.
Then COVID19 happened, and the extraverts had literally no one credible to follow. We might return to the old ways only if someone can motivate millions of people to socialize face-to-face every day. If not, watch a strange new social world emerge. It likely won't be pretty, as becoming a human-smartphone cyborg is a messy process.
https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/star-trek-the-next-generation/images/6753915/title/locutus-borg-photo
Follow the money. Where does CES get their funding? That's right...
...employ all the unemployable. Overpay them. It shows up in your employment data the first Friday of the month. Look at the jobs our administration has created!!!
My neighbor is a high school teacher. She told me her school district prohibited their teachers from turning on the camera on the student’s side of the link. She didn’t know if the students were actually there or not. They could be playing X Box on the other side of the room. She suspected many were.
My neighbor is a high school teacher. She told me her school district prohibited their teachers from turning on the camera on the student’s side of the link. She didn’t know if the students were actually there or not. They could be playing X Box on the other side of the room. She suspected many were.
Yeah the teachers on Reddit complained that the students wouldn't even turn on their cameras or mics. They'd log in but never appear, never answer questions. Lol
I think a lot of these kids should be cut loose after eighth grade.
Self-directed learning is a good feeling. Prison school, not so much.
Virtual school was a disaster on every level, particularly for males. Incalculable harm has been done to our society.
it's another covid democrat chi com miracle.
Create a vast network of illiterate uneducated ...
We are seeing how once people start letting accepted standards of behavior slip, the goal is now to normalize it.
The schools didn't really want to teach these kids in the first place, because it was so hard, so why not just stop bothering altogether.
I noticed an article in the State Journal yesterday that the plan for snow days (more than the 3 planned for) in Madison is to have the kids do worksheets at home, and that would count for instructional hours. There would be no classroom instruction -- that is, the teachers wouldn't be overseeing anything. I thought this a tacit admission that MMSD teachers fail at remote teaching, so why even try?
I'm not certain why the State that controls the purse strings would sign off on this.
What's the problem? Everyone gets a passing grade and a diploma anyway. Regardless of actual future performance., everyone is entitled to ample welfare--SSI, SNAP, EITC, housing, Medicaid, you name it. If you are a proper URM, DEI will open doors for you. So why bother?
And the truancy industrial complex is born. Meaningful employment for Black college graduates. After they learn how to knock on doors.
Seems to me Obama did fundamentally transform America.
Samuel Johnson offered a spirited defense on the advisability of beating children in order to encourage them to learn. We have now reached the point in our evolution where we no longer use child abuse as a pedagogical method. Perhaps someday we'll look back on using carbon based life forms as teachers with the same kind of horror. If AI can replace writers, accountants, et al., why can't they also replace teachers. Teachers are, for the most part, a decent lot, but they're far more likely to bore you than to leave you breathlessly enthused about the Pythagorean theorem.....There's no reason why Disney can't design a program where a child's favorite Disney star instructs the child on the fine points of grammar and, as will inevitably happen, sex education....In the future, a child's progress in the world will be measured not by how well he socializes with other children but how smoothly he interfaces with AI programs and robots. Better to start them young.
Election... attendance fraud. The students should sue TNY for defamation of character...
liberal sects for DEI (e.g. affirmative discrimination) policy, universities for misinformation, CDC for disinformation, Alphabet et al for steering to a preconceived conclusion, Democrats for shared responsibility through progressive prices, "minority" leaders for uncivil rights, etc.
The mother has 8 kids (she started at 13) and a lot of cats. No mention of any father in sight. To pretend that absence from school is the main problem here is missing the forest for the trees.
Formal K-12 education enjoyed its success in a century (1870-1970) in which 95% of the kids were from 2 parent families. Both parts of the equation were necessary, for even the education to succeed. To demand that formal education provide parenting as well as instruction merely invites failure at its core mission.
NYC must be good with permanent distance learning. The officials there have opened a high school to migrants and put the students on distance learning...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/asylum-seekers-relocated-from-shelter-at-floyd-bennett-field-to-james-madison-high-school-due-to-storm-prompting-remote-learning/ar-AA1mKEZ6
Have you seen footage of some classrooms around the nation. The kids run the show.
Every day I mourn those unborn mutations.
I know a lot of home schoolers whose parents share duties -- one teaches math, another grammar, and it seems like a delightful success, begun long before covid. They play intramural sports, have clubs, socialize and learn.
Unfortunately, when I lived in SE Atlanta, druggie or just unmotivated-to-the-point-of-anomie parents, grandparents and great-grandparents with 6-10 kids rarely sent their kids to school. Far worse was the collusion of the school districts: as their annual funding was determined by the number of kids who showed up for the first week, administrators and teachers criminally colluded to do something called a lock-down. I participated in a few as an idiot VISTA. When the heads counters were coming, the school gave parents a three or four day vacation from their kids by having a giant multi day sleepover at the schools, recruiting anyone. They'd get their inoculations updated and eyes and teeth tested and free glasses (good things), some got deloused, barbers and nail techs and hairdressers who came up hard volunteered services (and good on them), they got donated clothes and pizza and watched movies. They were "officially" enrolled. Though a larger percentage never came back except to occasionally get free food, all the employees kept their jobs based on those lockdown numbers, which were the official enrollment numbers for the school year.
Meanwhile, it became a three day raucous party for the parents and a huge reduction of work for the rest of the year for school employees. You know what urban school employees and administrators are? Lazy, dishonest scummy thieves. Nobody was allowed out of the building, not even a volunteer like me. I had to pay to put my dogs at the vet. I changed diapers on traumatized four-year olds. I showed Nightmare on Drug Street five times a day. The kids know all the words: they'd shout them out. Meanwhile they didn't know their fathers, and their moms were off smoking crack. And we had older high school age students recruited to sleep in gymnasiums with grade school age kids, knife fights. Etc.
I have little doubt these new "truancy" hires are just recruiting kids for the same sick racket. You gotta see it to believe it. I did.
MadisonMan said...
I thought this a tacit admission that MMSD teachers fail at remote teaching, so why even try?
I'm not certain why the State that controls the purse strings would sign off on this.
that's easy!
The State that controls the purse strings gets votes (more importantly dollars) from the teachers union
Follow the money.. It usually explains Everything
During a recent reunion I toured my high school. It was completely fenced around the buildings! Pretty grim even for an indoctrination center. Why would kids want to be there?
I love this article in 'The New Yorker' dated the day before kids in James Madison High in Brooklyn were told that their school was being taken over by illegal immigrants and that the students now had stay at home and attend school remotely.
Because it worked so well the previous few covid years.
Because the swarms who have overwhelmed our borders expecting food, shelter, education, healthcare, and wealth (this is what they've been sold) somehow have priority over the actual citizens who pay for everything and their children. Because 'Equity'.
Tina Trent. I thought it might be bad in that part of town, but wow. Good on you for trying. I taught in an historically black college in Georgia so I got a good look at the results of our system. Alas, some of the college professors were functionally illiterate as were most of the entering freshmen. Sad then. Horrible now.
Schools in the US were designed to produce good factory workers with enough education to read instructions and enough indoctrination to follow instructions. That simple foundation worked while most people graduating high school went to work as employees in factories or businesses.
But leftists decided that using schools' designed-in indoctrination function for political purposes was possible, so they did that. How do you educate someone to be a leftist? You don't. You indoctrinate then into leftism, and keep them ignorant to keep them indoctrinated.
Congratualtions to the leftists who have controlled Education in the US long enough to make Idiocracy seem more documentary than comedy.
Ha! When I was teaching absenteeism was the biggest threat to ADA money. And back in the early ‘90s Average Daily Attendance was in the high nineties, maybe 95% or higher. Then they were starting to fight like hell against Charter schools or vouchers or homeschooling or other threats that they identified as trying to derail their gravy train. They spent billions to fight these alternatives to public schools and not a dollar on improving outcomes. So now with their product revealed to be defective if not worthless during COVID they find apathy is what is taking away their ADA money. They were so pissed about the 10% of parents who might choose an alternative that they effed up their mission and are now driving away up to 30% and higher especially on Monday and Friday classes.
I laugh at their utter stupidity and incompetence. But I weep for the kids who are not learning to read write and do math.
""Johnson" = Shepria Johnson, employed by Concentric Education Solutions, which contracts with school districts to make home visits to families with truant children."
As Frank Zappa put it, "Who are the brain police?"
"I laugh at their utter stupidity and incompetence. But I weep for the kids who are not learning to read write and do math."
My kids have never attended schools. They read. They write. My daughter is studying calculus, my son is taking geometry. It is not necessary to spend six or eight hours a day in the company of someone so stupid they had to struggle to get an education degree, in order to learn to read and write. Like, would you want Dr. Jill around your kids? Look how hers turned out.
Homeschool. It's much, much easier than they want you to think.
When I worked at HBCU Clark Atlanta, I met a Nigerian Maths Professor trained at Oxford.
I thought he was going to kill himself. He left after one year. He was in a state of
constant shock.
In the end, it is the responsibility of parents to see that their children are doing their schoolwork and are making progress in their facility with reading, writing and arithmetic, and gaining adequate knowledge of the world in which we live, (history, geography, sociology, science, etc.). The teachers' best efforts will fail if the parents aren't backing them up and doing their bit to make sure their kids are completing and understanding their homework. It is the failure of parents to be actively involved in their children's education that is largely at fault for their children's misbehavior and failure to learn.
When you are running a long con, you can't just cut your marks loose and expect to pick up where you were when you abandon the operant conditioning.
The very fact that so many believed that was possible is prima facia evidence of how little professional, "highly schooled" educators have thought about the basis of their industry. It was just a given, there will always be a constant stream of new victims so why think about first principles.
I saw a news report out of Arizona of a 15-yr old girl who had accidentally graduated high school. She apparently had some problems at her charter school so her mother suggested an online program out of Atlanta that her brother had used. Her godfather would cajole her to do her school work and she just kept burning through the content without real intent but apparently productively.
Instapundit remarked some years ago about how his daughter when she started high school did a desk audit of her day. Desk audit is recording your activities in 10-15 min increments. She discovered that only about 10 minutes of the 50 min class period was in actual instruction. She went to online schooling and did some internships to good outcome.
Those who want to learn instead of just doing their time should do homeschool/online and skip the hours of their life wasted to admin, pep rallies, misbehavior of others, etc. School is day prison/camp, not really the best for motivated students these days.
Seems to me Obama did fundamentally transform America.
Oh boy ! did he and so quietly that nobody noticed at first. Tina's Nigerian Maths professor was probably an Ibo and went back where education is valuated. I met a Nigerian immigrant (legal) who has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Industrial Engineering. He was also an Ibo, or Igbo as they now prefer.
"Homeschool. It's much, much easier than they want you to think."
It is indeed. I've seen homeschool textbooks sold at Costco, and local homeschool associations are all over the place. Eventually states will have no choice but to reform their education programs.
The Nigerian maths professor and I had grossly strong black coffee together every day (a Nigerian thing?) and talked about Shakespeare and America's problems and Nigeria's problems. Lots of problems. Sometimes a black friend of mine from the freight docks who had a Ph.D. (Jeez, he really sucked at manual labor. Of course he's now a full professor somewhere) joined us. We all went to a psychology lecture together once. The speakers asked all white people to leave.
They were utterly mortified. They left with me. Good men.
We are doing a fine job of destroying this nation. I almost cry thinking about it, after all these years. What could have been. A cup of coffee, good conversation, learning from each other. Honesty.
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