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    School Shootings

    Fifty million kids are being home schooled by gun owners and there has not been a single school shooting! That is very cool.

    I guess it isn't the guns after all.
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    Shhhhh.....they will want to ban schools.
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    A bigger issue: how many students are getting any meaningful instruction in a wasted school year?

    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/20...3b30ba18dfa3f&
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    a bigger question is will the Parents of the little angels come to the realization that it's not the teachers fault. Jr really is a slack jawed pain in the ass and needs to be taken out to the woodshed. Furthermore maybe just maybe they will become better parents and understand how hard the teachers job really is and that ultimately they, the parent, need to be an active part of their childs education. Naw that will never happen.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by TriGuy View Post
    a bigger question is will the Parents of the little angels come to the realization that it's not the teachers fault. Jr really is a slack jawed pain in the ass and needs to be taken out to the woodshed. Furthermore maybe just maybe they will become better parents and understand how hard the teachers job really is and that ultimately they, the parent, need to be an active part of their childs education. .
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    A bigger issue: how many students are getting any meaningful instruction in a wasted school year?

    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/20...3b30ba18dfa3f&
    A woman that I work with has 15 year old twins. They live in Manhattan and attend(ed) a Yeshiva. That Yeshiva closed prior to any move to close the public schools. She is a single Mom and told me the her kids were going to continue with school remotely---to which she added---"so the chance of them learning anything is remote"

    However, I have asked her how that arrangement is going and she is feeling much better about it. I'm sure it is aided by the fact that Mom is now working from home.
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    My next door neighbor who is a widow, recently had both her single daughters move in with her when their businesses were closed due to the panic...One is a single mom whose son is about 10 I think, and does the remote classroom from home...When it started his mom said she didn't have much hope of him actually learning anything via internet teaching...

    I noticed him out playing with other kids most afternoons, so I got a chance to ask him how the remote classroom was working out for him...He said he wasn't sure he was learning much because he couldn't talk to the teachers and other people like he used to, and he didn't really understand the subject matter...I told him that this was a golden opportunity for him to learn about other subjects that he was actually interested in, but he'd have to do it on his own...I told him that the most important thing he can learn from any school, anywhere is how to learn on his own...I explained that in business when I hired people I didn't necessarily look for those with diplomas and degrees, but rather those who were able to learn about subjects and techniques that were unfamiliar to them...

    I think the kid is doing better now, since I don't see him out riding his bike or playing with other kids, and his mom says he seems to be adjusting better......Ben
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