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Give Thanks to Our Teachers for Braving the Pandemic!

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These days, it’s impossible not to hear cries of “get kids back in school” and “we need to reopen schools.” These declarations certainly suggest that schools are closed.

In this era of alternative facts, there is some bizarre belief out there that, all over the nation, school leaders have decided just to skip this year, allowing teachers to take a long, paid vacation. Of course, that would mean students have a year of free time with no lessons to complete, no grades to earn and no chance of moving on to the next level next year.

I suppose that means that virtual school or remote learning will no longer be officially considered “school.” (…)

For the vast majority of students, there is no equivalent alternative to the academic and social advantages offered by in-person classroom settings.

So, while virtual education is not the best option for most children, it is still a viable secondary option in circumstances where in-person learning is impractical or potentially unsafe.

It is worth pointing out that, until the COVID-19 pandemic, there weren’t a lot of supportive voices joining the proponents of in-person school over virtual education; tax dollars in multiple states were siphoned from traditional schools and diverted to online schools under the guise of supporting “school choice” initiatives.

Some of the very same voices shouting about the need to reopen schools that are currently virtual – as if virtual school isn’t really school – are the same voices that supported pre-pandemic virtual schools over traditional public schools in the first place.

A Redução De Casos Tem Sido Tal…

… que ainda acabamos com ressurreições. Ainda bem que a evolução é favorável. O único problema é que a testagem em massa parece ter-se traduzido numa redução substancial dos testes realizados diariamente.

5ª Feira – Dia 25

Dia 25 – Ansiedades

Não sei como colocar isto de forma mais subtil, mas pela minha observação directa ao longo de mais de três décadas como professor (e outras como criança e jovem, sendo que o meu “acho que” vale tanto como qualquer outro), as situações de ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes são, numa larga maioria, induzidas pelos adultos que as rodeiam.