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As a teacher, I disagree with a lot in this post. Teachers & schools are products of the government agencies which decide Ed. standards. We care and are struggling as much as our scholars. Your anger towards “mean” teachers/schools is misdirected. We have to follow laws. https://twitter.com/lex_about_sex/status/1304156305398140928
The unfortunate truth is my class is offered asynchronously and synchronously. Scholars who show up for live classes and have cameras on, are actively participating are passing. Those who do not, are not. That is not to say the scholars asynchronous are forgotten. +
I reach out to them with every missed assignment. Sometimes they respond sometimes they don’t. I can do nothing about the grading policy as that is decided by the state.
This is why synchronous classes and active participation is important. Scholars learn better this way. Cameras off for a 14 yr old mostly means more live stream gaming. That same student wants me to tutor them for 6 hrs on a Saturday before grade deadlines.
I often am a 1 on 1 tutor for 93 students 24 hrs before deadlines. This is problematic for my work life balance and do t forget I’m also living through a pandemic.Empathy for students yes. But empathy for schools being asked for the impossible too, please.
At our school we do have several scholars with accommodations and legit reasons they leave their camera off. We have all communicated about this and it has not been a problem. I do not ask them to turn it on.
School to prison pipeline is a REAL problem. I’m not disagreeing with this, but a lot of the points about how cameras being on is an example of this is just wrong.
