New York’s Online Class Sizes Could Reach Nearly 70 Students
New York Public Schools teacher Kirk Schneider is teaching six online geometry classes, each meeting twice a week. He’s also teaching a remote social emotional learning class three times a week, which helps students address personal challenges during the pandemic, with about 25 kids in each class.
When in-person high school classes start on Oct. 1, the number of students in his classroom will likely be in line with the expected average of nine and 12 socially-distanced students. But if more parents choose to keep their children home to take classes on a fully remote basis, Mr. Schneider expects class sizes in his online classes may balloon. The city Department of Education’s negotiated contract with the teachers union allows for remote classes to be as much as double the 34 student maximum for in-person high school classes....
Here public and private schools are now operating. The law does exempt primary school children from wearing masks, (under 11 in England, Scotland however, only up to 4 years old), but secondary school children must wear them in the main corridors and on public transport, although not generally required in the classroom. Some school heads are more severe than even the government guidelines, and some are completely authoritarian over COVID 19 measures.. In most schools, one way systems, closed areas, social bubble rules, staggered arrival, departure and lunchtimes separating different years, and so on are usually enforced. Parents are not allowed to enter schools at all, children are supposed to travel in special school buses, or in normal bus routes, with other passengers discouraged from using that bus, and things like concerts, sports events, etc, will be banned totally, or modified, apparently Christmas performances might be permitted under strict regulations, without a live audience,(parents watching at home on their computers). Any child exhibiting even a common cold or flu symptoms, let alone COVID 19, and usually the whole class and teacher will be sent home, and have to self isolate, (family as well) for 14 days!! What terrible fear!!!
Re: "social emotional class," we recently started high school in our homeschool. The goal is to get homeschooled children the right amount of credits in the right subjects. It's a bit of a puzzle. Not entirely sure how this class would fit. We're too busy doing math, English, history & science.
Re class size, this will be the generation that either figured it out on their own or failed miserably (key point - failure is always blamed on others today). With the exception of the relative handful of homeschoolers and Christian schooled children being the exception, my sense is that most who are public schooled will fail.
"He’s also teaching a remote social emotional learning class three times a week, which helps students address personal challenges during the pandemic, with about 25 kids in each class."
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