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Lot of retweets from journos about a story from another journo about getting those darn noisy kids âback to schoolâ.I read the story, not exactly Walkley Award winning but fellow journos are sharing enthusiastically....âa must readâ can almost hear the desperate pleading...
In some tweets. Time for a reality check from a full time teaching principal ( not a journo or politician or economist or âdoctorâ from the IPA) There is an underlying theme present in many stories and tweets that teachers are having a bit of a holiday (..we already have so many)
Because we are isolating I havenât talked to a lot of my colleagues but my wifeâs school ( over 500 students) is now teaching almost exclusively from online platforms ( Google or Seesaw) she worked all through the last holidays and is online to families and kids ALL DAY.
Iâm in a one teacher rural school so I have developed learning packs and I am putting in long hours preparing those for Prep-6 (Check out my schoolâs Facebook page to see those) We are working very hard. Weâre not fishing for compliments, weâre not âheroesâ weâre doing our jobs.
In Victoria, schools havenât closed. Iâve been at school constantly tho my wife works primarily from home. They are open for the children of essential service personnel and vulnerable children (identified as such by the school or parents) I donât have any children but there are..
About 20 out of 500 at my wifeâs school. DET has insturcted us to teach those children the same program as the kids at school and that is what volunteer staff are doing, as well as looking after their own class remotely. If Morrisonâs schoool is babysitting, maybe private....
schools are too well funded? Iâd enrol them in a state school if I was him. Parents are not â homeschoolingâ Journos need to stop using that term. You are not, planning, preparing, delivering and assessing YOUR OWN CURRICULUM. We are doing distance learning. Parents have...
a vital role but in partnership with their teacher and school. I also read a journo say teachers should be at school in front of kids teaching because supermarkets are still open full of people shopping and working. Well, I donât spend 7 hours at Woolies and I canât see myself
trying to teach kids who are standing on an âXâ 2 metres away from me while I stand behind a Perspex shield. They also donât handle money and donât pack bags. No contact at all. Only someone who hasnât been in a school for ages would think we can teach face to face like that.
Primary age kids donât do social distancing well ( many adults donât) it is impractical to think that they can and that a modern classroom ( Some jounos seem to think we just sit at our desks all day) can function in that manner. It canât. If all kids are back to school then...
to be fair you need to reopen all playgrounds and all restaurants. (Their tables can be set out like in a classroom ) As far as children falling behind is concerned, that was not the experience in NZ after the Christchurch earthquake or even after Hurricane Katrina. Refer link
Countries have closed schools partially like us and completely world wide. Some for short periods, others much longer, some closed, opened and closed again ( Singapore apparently is because of a spike) Morrison has always opposed it but sensible Premiers have acted. Vigorous...
testing in schools while we were all still on deck may have better informed our actions but the Government was very slow. Not Trump slow, but slow and unimaginative, nonetheless. Children do get this disease and do die. I know from the history of my school and others the impact..
of diseases like measles, whooping cough and diphtheria had on schools(You see it in the records, where schools had to close and where children died) There is nothing new about this, itâs just not in our living memory. It is hard for all of us, teachers and schools are doing..
Their best. We are doing the right thing and apparently getting results ( Weâd be doing better if Dutton did his job) and now is not the time to lose the plot. Hang in there like we are doing....a lot of teachers are also working with their children at home as well as teaching!
