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Originally Posted by bivenator

My kindergarten child usually attends in person but a stomach bug has her at home this week. She logged in for distance learning this morning for the second time this year. The kindergarten teacher was doing her best trying to teach both in person and online students. I sympathize with her as this is a herculean task for any age group but especially tough with kindergarten.

The teacher wrote this sentence verbatim. " I see a elf in the holwa. The elf has a red hat. The elf has a green sout."

The teacher cannot spell hallway or suit and did not use an in front of a word beginning with a vowel.

Not inspiring much confidence in the school system. I have even less faith in the parents of kids doing distance learning. The first time my kid did distance learning my wife observed kindergarten age kids with parents who were asleep while the 5 y/o is in 'class", parents having friends over with loud conversations during "class" and very often no parent present at all.

We are losing alot of critical learning time and alternative solutions to distance learning are needed.

I suspect the crap parents were crap whether the kid is in school or distance learning. Also, a crappy teacher is going to be crap in person or from a distance. This may or may not change how much kids are learning.

Parents that care and monitor/assist their kids in school are probably going to be doing it whether via distance learning or regular school time, and those are probably, mostly the kids that will do well.