[ExI] school. was: RE: How to watch Perseverance Mars landing on Thursday 18 Feb

[William Flynn Wallace]

 online learning just doesn't work for
some, but does for others, and works better than normal for a few.  OK than,
most here would agree on that observation.  So... what happens next? spike

I don't know the answer but it should be easy to determine for someone
motivated to do it - that is, not me.  Find out what happens when you
separate the best students from the rest in past studies (meaning real
classrooms full of people).  I have no guess.

Who is it that is doing better than normal with distance learning?  If it
is the top students - my guess - then let them study from home as long as
it doesn't hurt the other 80% (90%?; 95%?) of the students.

This will be a problem with the younger students if both parents work
outside the home.  bill w

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:16 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> ....> On Behalf Of Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] How to watch Perseverance Mars landing on Thursday 18
> Feb
>
> On 2021-2-17 07:23, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> >> The school board arranged for the winter break to be during this landing
> attempt.
>
> >...An uncommonly short break, then.  :P
>
> --
> *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
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>
>
> School's out for the week.
>
> Just kidding of course.  School has been out for nearly a year, depending
> on
> how one looks at it.  For some of the students, the ones who know how to
> take ownership of their own education, school went on, and for a small
> minority it really kicked into high gear, with better results than
> in-person
> classes.
>
> For others, an entire critically-important year was pretty much lost.  This
> has been turned into a pollical football in the USA (surprise!)  Our public
> schools have the notion that the goal is to have the graduates as equal as
> possible at diploma day.  The shutdown has defeated that goal 17 ways to
> Sunday.
>
> Ja, I am fully aware that comment risks igniting a firestorm of
> controversy.
> But it isn't USA politics as far as I can tell, or if so, who is on which
> side.  Every country in the world is facing these same kinds of questions
> and seeing the same things we are: online learning just doesn't work for
> some, but does for others, and works better than normal for a few.  OK
> than,
> most here would agree on that observation.  So... what happens next?
>
> spike
>
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