SweetSue92
Diamond Member
I received a pamphet/reminder that, while we are "online schooling", we are to be mindful of students' home lives, social/emotional wellbeing, mental health, and traumatic pasts, if applicable.
So.
While we are trying to figure out how to teach them virtually, if they even have devices, and how to get those devices to work, we also need to monitor--virtually--the entire rest of their lives. While also taking care of our own.
If this is not a sign that schools have just taken on TOO MUCH of students' lives, I don't know what is. I do not mean to sound insensitive to students' needs; I love mine dearly and miss them. But it should not be our responsibility to see if Susan's mom is drunk all day, if Johnny's dad is beating his mother, or if Tommy is being left alone. VIRTUALLY. How can we even get children into private conversations to discover this?
This is not the schools' mess. This is OUR mess. Society's mess. We have children from every area of America who are not safe at home, with their families.
This is OUR America.
So.
While we are trying to figure out how to teach them virtually, if they even have devices, and how to get those devices to work, we also need to monitor--virtually--the entire rest of their lives. While also taking care of our own.
If this is not a sign that schools have just taken on TOO MUCH of students' lives, I don't know what is. I do not mean to sound insensitive to students' needs; I love mine dearly and miss them. But it should not be our responsibility to see if Susan's mom is drunk all day, if Johnny's dad is beating his mother, or if Tommy is being left alone. VIRTUALLY. How can we even get children into private conversations to discover this?
This is not the schools' mess. This is OUR mess. Society's mess. We have children from every area of America who are not safe at home, with their families.
This is OUR America.