I don't think the entire county was that bad. It might have been a district by district thing. Much like my town was almost entirely zoom school for all of 20-21 when the town next door was in person as of the fall of 20.
Funny I'm working on my front porch this afternoon and my postal carrier just came by to deliver the mail. He's wearing a mask. Suburban houses, I'm 10' down the end of the porch from the mailbox, and he's wearing a dopey useless blue surgical mask as he walks by himself.
The Catholic and other private schools were up and running in Philadelphia and environs by the Fall of 2020; the public schools were closed up tight. We are SO thankful that we didn't have kids in school to worry about anymore, I don't know how parents and kids coped, I can't even stand to think about it.
Same here. My twins where in 10th grade when the lockdown happened and school went zoom. My daughter is a good student and did fine with the remote business, but then again she'd point the camera at the ceiling, mute her mic and watch TV. My son couldn't even be bothered to do that much and slept in and played video games when he got up. Fall of 11th grade and they tried to do in person where they split the grade in half A-L and Li-Z, with one group in person and the other at home, swapping the next day. They also shortened the 45 minute periods to something like 25minutes each. Once three positive cases turned up, they'd make everyone remote again for a minimum of two weeks and then try it again. By thanksgiving my kids had been in person a total of 8 days and then they decided to shut down and go fully remote until January. Again, girl doing fine, boy missing more than he attended and threatened with losing credit for several classes for having more than 14 absences regardless of grades.
The day before they were supposed to go back to in person in January, district superintended sends out a "psych!" email and says they were going to be remote for at least another 2 weeks and would reassess. My son, failing badly in this model. I sent a nasty note to the superintendent and a few other folks and started looking for alternatives. I pulled him out of the school and enrolled him in K12.com (not free) thinking that if he was going to be remote he needed something designed to be remote. Initially he did very well and then got frustrated because all his learning was async and stopped doing anything again. He lost 11th grade. I re-enrolled him for 12th grade in the public school but because of the previous year was behind in credits so he had to take 3 summer school classes.
It was all so damned frustrating as these people ignored the data and kept repeating TheScience(tm) along with the crazy Karens in this dumb district. My daughter stood in the outfield playing softball wearing a mask last year and had the weirdest tan.
So sorry your kids had to go through that. I would be incandescently enraged. Hoping that your son will find his footing again. These have been the Lost Years....
Thank you! I was livid and sending emails everywhere. Principal, superintendent, gov. I'm sure I'm on some watchlist now. Back in school this year, he's doing much better. Graduates HS on 6/22. He's taking the gap year I offered while my daughter starts in on a 2 year associates in programming this fall. I'm just thankful that i never heard and crazy CRT in the zoom classes, that would have been the final nail, but they have been subjected to the Social Emotional Learning over the years.
What they've done to children is downright criminal. NYC still wears masks in class, including the little ones, who honestly need it the least.
I don't think the entire county was that bad. It might have been a district by district thing. Much like my town was almost entirely zoom school for all of 20-21 when the town next door was in person as of the fall of 20.
Funny I'm working on my front porch this afternoon and my postal carrier just came by to deliver the mail. He's wearing a mask. Suburban houses, I'm 10' down the end of the porch from the mailbox, and he's wearing a dopey useless blue surgical mask as he walks by himself.
The Catholic and other private schools were up and running in Philadelphia and environs by the Fall of 2020; the public schools were closed up tight. We are SO thankful that we didn't have kids in school to worry about anymore, I don't know how parents and kids coped, I can't even stand to think about it.
Same here. My twins where in 10th grade when the lockdown happened and school went zoom. My daughter is a good student and did fine with the remote business, but then again she'd point the camera at the ceiling, mute her mic and watch TV. My son couldn't even be bothered to do that much and slept in and played video games when he got up. Fall of 11th grade and they tried to do in person where they split the grade in half A-L and Li-Z, with one group in person and the other at home, swapping the next day. They also shortened the 45 minute periods to something like 25minutes each. Once three positive cases turned up, they'd make everyone remote again for a minimum of two weeks and then try it again. By thanksgiving my kids had been in person a total of 8 days and then they decided to shut down and go fully remote until January. Again, girl doing fine, boy missing more than he attended and threatened with losing credit for several classes for having more than 14 absences regardless of grades.
The day before they were supposed to go back to in person in January, district superintended sends out a "psych!" email and says they were going to be remote for at least another 2 weeks and would reassess. My son, failing badly in this model. I sent a nasty note to the superintendent and a few other folks and started looking for alternatives. I pulled him out of the school and enrolled him in K12.com (not free) thinking that if he was going to be remote he needed something designed to be remote. Initially he did very well and then got frustrated because all his learning was async and stopped doing anything again. He lost 11th grade. I re-enrolled him for 12th grade in the public school but because of the previous year was behind in credits so he had to take 3 summer school classes.
It was all so damned frustrating as these people ignored the data and kept repeating TheScience(tm) along with the crazy Karens in this dumb district. My daughter stood in the outfield playing softball wearing a mask last year and had the weirdest tan.
I coped with alcohol and cigarettes :/
So sorry your kids had to go through that. I would be incandescently enraged. Hoping that your son will find his footing again. These have been the Lost Years....
Thank you! I was livid and sending emails everywhere. Principal, superintendent, gov. I'm sure I'm on some watchlist now. Back in school this year, he's doing much better. Graduates HS on 6/22. He's taking the gap year I offered while my daughter starts in on a 2 year associates in programming this fall. I'm just thankful that i never heard and crazy CRT in the zoom classes, that would have been the final nail, but they have been subjected to the Social Emotional Learning over the years.
What they've done to children is downright criminal. NYC still wears masks in class, including the little ones, who honestly need it the least.