kilroy_jones

The article isn't saying that classes can't be online, just that the medium doesn't work as well when employing certain teaching techniques.

Most teachers are still working doing online learning though, which why I stated they'd prefer to be in the classroom. Online learning is all the worst parts of teaching with very little of the joy.

Sure, if someone wanted to pay me to do whatever I wanted I'd take it no qualms whatsoever. But yes, I may not admit to it.

It does seem that way, and I hope it remains so. The demographics have shifted younger. I do worry about my parents, grandparents and friends who have preexisting conditions and the increase risk with so many more cases around.

Of course there will be people like this. Do you think they are anywhere close to the majority?

Isn't living life in the same way pre-covid the reason the US is having so many new cases?

Most teachers would rather be in the classroom than do online learning. They'd also like people to be safe.

The issue comes with trying to force kids to wear masks when so many parents are against them in many places, maintain social distancing, and keeping things clean and sanitized.

Keeping kids focused and learning has become difficult enough, but add on all those measures plus the possibility of contracting covid, just means you will lose a lot of experienced teaching staff.

Maybe the issue lies more in your first statement that children need to go somewhere. That's a fairly modern notion. If we've created a society where we rely on strangers to care for our kids, then maybe that's something that needs to be looked rather than creating additional covid hotspots?

While we're doing that, maybe a compromise with A/B school days to limit student numbers, with online participation for whichever group is at home. Schools also need to create strict rules as far as cafeterias, masks, etc... With clear consequences for violations.

The school I am at has dividers in the cafeteria and staggered lunches with no talking while eating. Masks at all times. Temperature checks at the doors and such. This is countrywide (not US) and there has been no spread in schools.

And how does one determine this enlightened few and how do they get out into power? It seems like you're advocating for what would quickly become an aristocracy,

People can work together, but an effective system of organization needs to be in place which allows for check and balances. The internet has bypassed many of our former checks and balances, so it's time to rework things.

So you're equating the banning of accounts to the blocking of the majority of internet?

Not even remotely true. The West has myriad choices to choose from in comparison. I don't think you understand how in sync the media is there. They'll literally run identical stories at the same time on every major network, and publish the same set of stories in their papers day after day.

No need to say anything really.

Well, being good and for the public good are separate concepts in my mind. That aside, you never addressed the smoking, seatbelt or helmet laws with regard to adults. Permissible or not?

I came here to comment this exact thing. I was fascinated by Fuller as a teenager.

I assume you're also against seatbelt and helmet laws. What about those laws applying to children? What about smoking laws?

The US already has numerous laws that few people complain about because they've come to recognize them as necessary for the public good. But that was only after they were passed and enforced.

That people consider civil unrest because they're told to wear masks for a few months in order to prevent countless deaths is more a sign of a broken culture than anything else.

It's not dangerous at all. The US already has helmet laws for motorcycles and kids on bikes, seatbelt laws, gun laws around safe use and numerous other laws that prevent people from inadvertently affecting others lives.

Making people wear masks in public transport or other public settings during a pandemic is hardly an overreach in comparison.

If they had made it a temporary law and fined people heavily at the very beginning it would have saved thousands of lives and jobs. Look at the countries that acted swiftly back in January and February.

To get something made or to work at?

At what point do we stop wasting time and energy trying to build better tools to catch cheaters and start focusing on building a better system of education and assessment?

If a kid can cheat, pass, get a degree and go out and not fail in the real world, what does that say about the validity of the tests? Even futher, what does that say about the world we live in?

I've never had a battery life problem with Arch or Mint.

Maybe there is a spatial element, as in a mental mapping that is done based on the location in the book both seen and felt in the hands.

You could fix almost everything with education as long as parents stepped in and were competent enough to do so.

Younger students (K-12) need interaction with other students and their teachers, not lectures. I teach some of the most motivated and diligent students you could ask for, but after 3 weeks of online learning they were burnt out.

To further compound the issue, in many places students don't have reliable internet access or a decent computer.

And all it took was a few thousand unnecessary deaths. Vietnam and Taiwan temporarily shutdown, and the former had 0 deaths while the latter has had less than 10.

Thanks for saying, and more eloquently than I likely could, exactly what I wanted to.

The surveillance state is already here, whether we like it or not.

Taiwan's leadership, ahem. Only 50 or so cases and their approval rating has soared.

As someone in Taiwan, I have appreciated the 'over reaction.' Masks are still on 80% of the people riding public transport even though cases have hardly budged in weeks. What people don't get is even if you're young and just get sick, it's possible this will cause long lasting respiratory issues like SARs did. Why risks that just you can enjoy a one off public event?

Pretty bad attitude to have considering how your carelessness can adversely affect many others.

I find this idea of putting everything in economic terms worrying. What does excessive food waste say about the quality of the culture?