Some teachers have definitely been lazy. Some have been exceptionally hard-working and have really upped their game. My daughter's history teacher, for example, has adapted well and produced podcasts, Zoom meetings, online assignments, etc., which are probably almost as good as actually turning up and teaching a real class.
In my experience, though - limited, but I am a school governor and a parent of two school-age children - the majority have put in a lot of non-productive effort. They have laboured long and hard, and produced very little of value. Lots of fluster and self-justifying statements, but not much more than an hour of work for my son, usually lifted straight off a teachers' internet resource site, or links to educational videos bought "off the shelf" by the school.
I know that lots of time at school is completely wasted while the teachers keep order, check lists, call registers, and move children from A to B. Interestingly, one of the Marxist theories of education is that it is to prepare children for a lifetime of meaningless drudgery and being buggered about by clueless managers. But if education is going to change as a result of the Corona lockdown, then someone needs to sort out the IT skills of teachers, or - better - provide some sort of foolproof national platform along the lines of Moodle.
Sam - your son's experience sounds very similar to our grandson's. We have anecdotal info from three schools all of which sound similar - some teachers made an effort while others wouldn't even risk going in to school and very few pupils turned up anyway. Those that did had hardly any work to do.
My overall impression is of poor school management, also reflected in online information they put out. Very few pupils seem to have completed the online work they were set.
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Yeah, A.T.A.B,
Some teachers have definitely been lazy. Some have been exceptionally hard-working and have really upped their game. My daughter's history teacher, for example, has adapted well and produced podcasts, Zoom meetings, online assignments, etc., which are probably almost as good as actually turning up and teaching a real class.
In my experience, though - limited, but I am a school governor and a parent of two school-age children - the majority have put in a lot of non-productive effort. They have laboured long and hard, and produced very little of value. Lots of fluster and self-justifying statements, but not much more than an hour of work for my son, usually lifted straight off a teachers' internet resource site, or links to educational videos bought "off the shelf" by the school.
I know that lots of time at school is completely wasted while the teachers keep order, check lists, call registers, and move children from A to B. Interestingly, one of the Marxist theories of education is that it is to prepare children for a lifetime of meaningless drudgery and being buggered about by clueless managers. But if education is going to change as a result of the Corona lockdown, then someone needs to sort out the IT skills of teachers, or - better - provide some sort of foolproof national platform along the lines of Moodle.
Sackers - yeah.
Sam - your son's experience sounds very similar to our grandson's. We have anecdotal info from three schools all of which sound similar - some teachers made an effort while others wouldn't even risk going in to school and very few pupils turned up anyway. Those that did had hardly any work to do.
My overall impression is of poor school management, also reflected in online information they put out. Very few pupils seem to have completed the online work they were set.
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