come on man, it had two days until its two-week period was up!
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what difference does the two week period make?
If you go two weeks without symptoms you probablu donāt have symptoms
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oh ok I get it now
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Finally today is the last day of school.
It is the end of the first year of high school.
School ends at 1 pm.
Orā¦ it should end at 1 pm.
Thanks to online learning the history professor will continue interrogating until 5 pm because 4-6 marks arenāt enough apparently.
Man I love online learning.
Well at least itās the last day of school and tomorrow Iām free and I can do whatever I want
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when I was doing e-learning, I had to wear my uniform to all meetings
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So happy Iām out of school. Iāve only been in one call since thus began. But seriously? You had to get dressed for online school? Did they also control that you had to have a clean background or show your hands to make sure you werenāt having fun?
no, as long as we werenāt on a couch or bed, it was fine, but they were not that strict, I ended up playing with my galidor pieces off camera
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So even if you werenāt physically at school they had stupid rules. And adults wonder why most kids fake being sick or anything to not go to school. I wonder if anyone ever went pantless as an FU to the rule.
I had some youth in government calls where I wore a suit jacket and tie with gym shorts
We got one email about us still wearing business casual; but none of our classes had us online so I only had to wear them for group calls. Some days I would wear the shirts anyway cause theyāre comfy.
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Although I hated wearing the uniform, all of the students in hindsight can agree that it better encouraged productivity, by the end of the semester, we were still on track with the original syllabus. we almost had 100% attendance
And that my friend, is why Homeschooling works.
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what is your opinion of home schooling? I have met people that have been homecshooled their whole life and hated, but I know others who switched from ānormalā school to being homeschooled and loved it.
I got pulled out of a private school my first year because I was already far ahead in certain subjects - I did math on a third grade level at least, and first grade math was so boring that I was failing due to my lack of interest. Homeschooled until 10th grade where I started taking a few early classes in college (which a lot of my homeschool compatriots did.)
On an academic level, how well you do in homeschool depends on how well you can teach yourself, especially if the stuff youāre learning is beyond your parentsā understanding, as well as the coursework. I had a good math curriculum that didnāt teach calculus, so I switched to the Saxon math which didnāt explain things well enough, on top of having a bunch of questions each day, and I got consistent Fās in math that year. Not that it mattered since I had already taken the SAT, and retook calculus in college at a much more reasonable pace.
The social level is where it gets tricky. A lot of parents choose to homeschool because that lets them be more involved in the childās development, and so when the child has to tackle complex topics theyāll be more likely to talk to their parents instead of their peers. However, this also means that youāre going to be seeing people less and have less of a chance to meet people with different perspectives, since a lot of homeschooled kids (at least the ones I know) share similar backgrounds. It might just be my own case, and in part due to my autism spectrum disorder, but I didnāt have anyone I considered to be close friends through most of high school, only improving once I started going to a youth group (with the help of a good youth pastor and a girl I had a crush on) and the LEGO community online.
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As Iāve been homeschooled since 2nd grade, itās the way I prefer.
Thereās also 2-3 kinds of homeschooling as well. There what I call traditional homeschooling, which is what I did. Basically, the parentās are the teachers, and they help educate the children (and as the children get older, the children can do it themselves, the parents just provide the curriculum). The second is a homeschool co-op. Similar to an electric co-op, several people get together, to homeschool their kids. For example Mrs. Smith teaches math, Mr. Browne teaches english, Maybe on of the older kids teaches history, etc. The third is online public school, basically, they are registered public schools, that do teaching online, which is kinda whatās going on right now with the lockdown.
I think, it all depends on the kids, but for the majority, I think homeschooling in one of these forms does better than public schooling. Simply because the child in question, isnāt a statistic. They arenāt just some number they need to make sure they school hits their budget quota. With things like the co-ops, or traditional homeschooling, and depending on which one, even online public schools, the educators get to know the child personally, and they can help tailor the curriculum to the specific child or group of childrenās needs.
Thatās part of why private tutors are so effective, they are able to engage and get to know the child better than the average public school teacher. (Nothing against those teachers, itās just the way the system is)
Obviously, not all kids will thrive in a homeschool environment, some kids thrive in a public school environment. It depends on the child.
It think that kinda depends on the parents. My parentās are bible-believing southern baptists, but they made sure to pound into me the different points of view people have. Just depends on who your parents are.
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Except Iāve always though āwhen are we as average people ever going to use half this stuff?ā Unless you want a specific job or degree itās practically useless. To this day Iāve never used math past elementary or middle school level and remember next to nothing of history.
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well the answer to that is, donāt strive to be an average person. I will agree, I have gotten frustrated many times during my math class with those same opinions, but some things are particularly important, history and philosophy. I think it is a shame that so many people forget about their history classes, because if we do not inform ourselves, it will repeat itself.
I have had the chance to use my recently learned math skills to draw digital pictures and the knowledge has also greatly assisted my programming dexterity.
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All of my complaints about school now no longer matter, because I have officially graduated! Thatās right, Iām the cursed class of 2020! My graduation year will strike fear into my enemies and force them to quiver as I near!
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I guess.
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I always hear the ālearn from the pastā excuse. Sure there are some specialized things that itās helpful but the average person probably isnāt going to become a mathmetician, historian, etc. Iām probably never going to be in charge of a large group like a country or company so Iāve got nothing to learn from Hitler, Julius ceaser, or any other failed leader.
Besides; for things like math they invented this great thing called the internet. We donāt need to know this stuff off the top of our head anymore.
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