Danish Modern: Returning to Classes
Aug. 15th, 2020 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutterOn Thursday, September 3, many Ontario kids will head back to the classroom, where they will learn not to share, not to play well with others, and not to ask a grown-up for help unless that grown-up is wearing plenty of personal protective equipment.
There's plenty of anxiety to go around for parents, kids, educators and other school staff, and some public health experts too. About the only thing that's clear is that the classroom experience in the fall of 2020 will be very different from how it was in 2019. Apparently the Danish model is seen as one to emulate, while the Israeli one is to be avoided. In Ontario, a group of stakeholders is advocating the notion of going slow to go fast:
https://peopleforeducation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gentle-Re-opening-of-Ontario-Schools.pdf
Some parents feel they simply have no choice but to send their kids back to school if their family is to survive. On the other hand, many others are fairly optimistic and look forward to a return to modified normalcy.
I honestly don't know what I would do if I still had school-aged children to consider. Parents are being given very little time to make rather crucial decisions. I've always been interested in the phenomenon of home-schooling, although it never seemed practical for us. For that matter, it's impractical for a lot of modern-day families. But since the pandemic struck, in-school schooling has come to rival it in impracticality! Education has become one big ad hoc experiment.
The main consolation is that everyone in the education system is at least to some degree in the same boat. So we all have a vested interest in putting appropriate measures in place to keep that boat afloat!
There's plenty of anxiety to go around for parents, kids, educators and other school staff, and some public health experts too. About the only thing that's clear is that the classroom experience in the fall of 2020 will be very different from how it was in 2019. Apparently the Danish model is seen as one to emulate, while the Israeli one is to be avoided. In Ontario, a group of stakeholders is advocating the notion of going slow to go fast:
https://peopleforeducation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gentle-Re-opening-of-Ontario-Schools.pdf
Some parents feel they simply have no choice but to send their kids back to school if their family is to survive. On the other hand, many others are fairly optimistic and look forward to a return to modified normalcy.
I honestly don't know what I would do if I still had school-aged children to consider. Parents are being given very little time to make rather crucial decisions. I've always been interested in the phenomenon of home-schooling, although it never seemed practical for us. For that matter, it's impractical for a lot of modern-day families. But since the pandemic struck, in-school schooling has come to rival it in impracticality! Education has become one big ad hoc experiment.
The main consolation is that everyone in the education system is at least to some degree in the same boat. So we all have a vested interest in putting appropriate measures in place to keep that boat afloat!
