I usually stay away from school policy stuff bc I don't have kids, but here goes a mini thread of my own...
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Granted, when I was 8 we didn't have 'online learning'; hell, most of us didn't have 'online' in 1990. But… https://twitter.com/Caitlin_Rogger/status/1291565999989432321

…we were also told spending hours a day in front of a screen would rot our brains.

I know most of us adults all do it now, but I still wonder if 3–4 hours a day sat in front of a screen and largely unable to move is going to be good for these kids.
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also, the years I spent in an 'open' classroom (K/1)—essentially asynchronous in-person learning—were by far better for me than most of the rest of my school career. When we moved and I started a 'normal' school, I was something like half a year ahead.

Also super bored.
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Which _isn't_ to say what worked for me 30 years ago would work for all kids today—but simply picking up the decades-old model of in-school elementary education that, frankly, fails so many kids and shoving it through a cable line at them doesn't seem like it will, either.
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Schools: one more thing we could've spent the last six months figuring out how to do differently and better in a New Covid Reality, instead of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending It'll All Be Better Soon so we can Go Back To Normal....
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