Remote learning

It takes a specific personality to be a teacher. I'm not that person, I'm an engineer. Interesting side note it seems engineers marry teachers or nurses alot....so it must take that specific personality to deal with engineers.

I've got 3 kids do hybrid school this year. The lack of real physical books is my pet peeve. Everything is online and you have to use 4 different websites and lord knows how many apps just to do school work. One of my kids has real difficulty staying on task when he's not at school with it's normal routine.

The teachers are doing there best and it's amazing the technology infrastructure of this country can handle the massive amounts of internet connection needed every day for the distance learning and work.

I don't know how many people had to get internet at there house. I know we had to get new internet service at the farm house. There was a 2 month backlog to have the router installed...so I did it myself.

 

We went down to Ames early yesterday and moved my daughter out of her dorm at Iowa State. She was paying big bucks for what should have been a high quality university education, but she's been locked down in her dorm room taking all her classes on-line. She could have just as well stayed home and sat in her room and got the same education at a fraction of the cost. So next semester she's going to go to a local community college, which is still having in person classes, and stay at home and work her part-time job she has in summer and when she's on breaks. She would like to go back to ISU in a year or so and finish her degree if this lockdown BS ever clears itself up.

 

Like other areas of the country I'm sure, Maine is dealing with too many situations where parents don't even have a computer at home. And, many single parents who have to work. Our own grandkids sometimes seem completely disconnected to following directions too...
I feel for every parent now out there trying their best to do this impossible home schooling-hybrid schooling task, while trying to maintain a living.

 

No comment.

 

So, I have one child in public school system. My wife is a special education director for a neighboring school system. I have a lot to say about all this but to keep things in FHC Style I will hold back.

I will say the level of education my son is getting is nowhere comparable to in class learning. Both academic and social lessons. We(wife and I) both work full time and are now trying to educate in the few hours we have in the evening. It is very frustrating for us and my son. Hang in there folks.

 

For some, homeschooling is an answer.
If we were to do it again, id make some changes, but Abeka was worth every penny.
Ours did the govt school routine for 2 years, and Im glad he did. When he had enough, we agreed to homeschool again.
He's in college now making 3.6 gpa.....thank God the apple fell (and kept on rolling) far from that tree!!

In his time home, he learned to do basic wiring, wood working, some roofing, a host of other "how to be a man and run a home" maintenance, cooking, landscaping, laundry, the all important wood cutting hauling splitting routines. but most importantly, he learned to love his God, be a man, and serve others.

The price to pay was that we didn’t own a house till much later, and got a city house at that. But, long after our single-income/financial shortcomings are over and forgotten, he'll be influencing this world for the better, as will his children: for years after we are gone.

Sca