<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:31 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5196446344331968220WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5196446344331968220WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5196446344331968220WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>> </i></span><i>distance learning is working for a few, generally not working well for the middle and is a total failure for the lower end students, many of whom disengaged entirely.</i></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Unfortunately<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>I think that's probably true<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, but bad as it is distance learning is not as big a failure as death is.</span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If you have any ideas or suggestions for the local public school advisory board, I am all ears.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">If this was January or even February I'd have some suggestions on how schools might stay open and people not die<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> but <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">this is August and in the US </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">t</span>he virus is so out of contr<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ol</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>none of those ideas would work<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> anymore</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. Most European and Asian countries can safely reopen their schools in the fall, but I'm sorry to say the US can not.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>