{"id":97564,"date":"2020-12-19T20:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=97564"},"modified":"2020-12-19T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:39:56","slug":"for-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=97564","title":{"rendered":"For The Kids…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

This school year has been challenging for every teacher, student, and parent. Watching the vicious debate of in-person schooling versus virtual play out has been disheartening. Our children\u2019s\u2019 school has the option for virtual or in-person learning. We choose virtual for a myriad of reasons, the largest factor being our eldest son is immuno-compromised. I\u2019m a mom and a teacher; I\u2019ve seen the struggle on both sides.<\/p>\n

My youngest is in virtual class every day, doing homework each night, and still she has missing assignments piled up. One of my student\u2019s, whose Chromebook malfunction lead him to miss a week, has 24 missing assignments just in ELA. I\u2019m not sure where we veered from structured to overwhelming.<\/p>\n

I see a lot of in-fighting in schools. Poor attendance, falling grades, missing assignments need to be someone\u2019s fault. Some say parents are failing their kids, some blame the teachers. Everyone is feeling stretched too thin.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t kid ourselves. Every single student will be further behind than they \u201cshould\u201d be. Teachers call the backslide in academics following the summer break \u201csummer slump\u201d. Well this will be termed the covid slump, regardless of how hard teachers and parents work, and it\u2019ll be brutal. Giving excess assignments right now isn\u2019t helping anyone; certainly not the students.<\/p>\n

That said, the things we\u2019re doing to mitigate it matter. The structure provided, the social interactions, and the learning should not be undervalued. But teachers and parents need to give each other a lot more grace. We\u2019re both doing it for the kids.<\/p>\n

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[AdSense-A] By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong This school year has been challenging for every teacher, student, and parent. Watching the vicious debate of in-person schooling versus virtual play out has been disheartening. Our children\u2019s\u2019 school has the option for virtual or in-person learning. We choose virtual for a myriad of reasons, the largest factor being our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97564"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}