To InfiniTier and beyond ....

[dancemom]

Tiers, tiers and more tears ....

I'm so relieved that S1-S3 are getting some face to face teaching. Had a phone call earlier with DS's guidance teacher, who was offering a place for DS in the hub as he is struggling so much with lockdown.

@GirlLovesWorld this worries me slightly!

We have upskilled rapidly and invested in tech massively.

I keep thinking why? Why invest all this money and time for something that was only ever going to be another month.

Freaks me out ever so slightly.

Wax, come on

You accused me on the last thread of a 'personal attack' because I said I thought you had previously posted in a tone that I consider to be 'over the line'.

But now according to you 'fuck off' isn't a personal attack.

I'm actually laughing at this now

It's so hard to watch isn't it @Graffitiqueen .
DS is surviving not thriving at the minute is the best way to describe it. He's a typically sullen teen but his face lit up when I said he'd likely be in for a day or two before Easter holidays.

[quote kurtrussellsbeard]@GirlLovesWorld this worries me slightly!

We have upskilled rapidly and invested in tech massively.

I keep thinking why? Why invest all this money and time for something that was only ever going to be another month.

Freaks me out ever so slightly. [/quote]
Oh, no no no! That was in response to a post above. A poster had concerns that home learning would drop in favour of the small window of actual contact time for high school pupils.

I didn't mean it would continue forever, I was just saying I don't believe it will drop in the period leading up to kids fully going back to school.

That's quite sweet @rookiemere

No but still. I can't work out why my school has spent so much on things that I associate with homeschooling. It worries me.

I suppose all homework might go paperless right enough.

Would make sense to keep the teams we have for that purpose.

Paperless homework, yeah I think that's where our school was headed before December. Although we kept forgetting to do it...the presence of the homework jotter was a better reminder!

They'll never get another snow day off school that's for sure .

Girllovesworld - how can it not? In order to teach with 2m distancing, you have at max half the class in one week, half the next. Staff however would be teaching full time (to both groups of pupils). I would not be teaching full time to pupils in front of me and preparing lessons (I'm currently doing many of these live) not because I don't want to work hard (I'm doing that now!) but because I cannot simply double my workload if I can't double the hours in the day! So, your S1 in for one day a week means no online working for the next week.

Ha yeah my kids had that realisation last week and were not impressed

I only have primary-age kids, but wouldn't it be broadly the same, in that they just get on with more independent stuff when not in the classroom? Or is there a lot more live learning that I'm not taking account of?

@ItsIgginningtolooklikelockdown

Girllovesworld - how can it not? In order to teach with 2m distancing, you have at max half the class in one week, half the next. Staff however would be teaching full time (to both groups of pupils). I would not be teaching full time to pupils in front of me and preparing lessons (I'm currently doing many of these live) not because I don't want to work hard (I'm doing that now!) but because I cannot simply double my workload if I can't double the hours in the day! So, your S1 in for one day a week means no online working for the next week.

This with bells on. Blended learning worse than online learning. Better socially right enough.

We can only hope it's just that week or two.

Can someone link to the new thread over on the old one? I'm on my phone so unsure how to do it

I see our friend Devi is all for Israeli style vaccine passports to enter public venues:

www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/vaccine-passports-pubs-should-considered-19947900?fbclid=IwAR3Npkw5dSYjI8XEHO989axRlJoIpY-IU9EGWqPGj9SAKddEVfVEXO7kAZU

How can schools deliver in-school learning, high quality remote learning and prioritise seniors. Decisions about how this work will be council led and yet again there will be no consistency.
I think I’d rather have home learning for my S3 until Easter rather than a day or two in school and not much else. Surely this is just lip service from the SG. By the time we all know what’s happening it will be the Easter hols and not worth making a fuss.
So much work for schools in preparing for this, it hardly seems worth the bother for S1-3. It seems inevitable that between 15th and Easter will be a write off for them.

@rookiemere Ds seemed fine up unto a point and then had a massive meltdown. So worried about him. he needs to be back in school.

Last week when it was no school before Easter people were screaming 'I literally fucking hate her' on the last thread, and now people would rather not bother with blended for two weeks.

Humanity as a whole is unfathomable

@Jodhpurs46 I completely agree.

It's lip service. I'm not trying to take away from the relief felt by folk for their kids getting a wee bit of hope but from an educational point of view I see little benefit for them.

@rookiemere

They'll never get another snow day off school that's for sure .

This would have benefitted me! I'm convinced the number of snow days we had directly impacted my ability to do long division.

[quote kurtrussellsbeard]@Jodhpurs46 I completely agree.

It's lip service. I'm not trying to take away from the relief felt by folk for their kids getting a wee bit of hope but from an educational point of view I see little benefit for them. [/quote]
The socialisation and mental health benefits surely are very important though?

@GirlLovesWorld yeah definitely. It will be great for the kids on a social level. I'm just being arsey because I'm stressed about how we plan for it and don't attract complaints!

Half a day in school per week, if lucky. Let's just admit we want a party for them, not some poor geography teacher trying to get a group of 12 year olds to focus for their one face-to-face lesson of the week!

I do agree that even a day would be good for mental health etc. but if it means sacrificing 2 weeks of remote learning to accommodate a day for all S1-3 masked up and distanced, I don’t think it is worth it.

@ItsIgginningtolooklikelockdown yes it's social contact. Poor kids need it, it's been long enough without postponing it even further.

One thing we've hopefully learned from all of this - if we didn't know it already- is that going to school is about much, much more than learning.