utica parents on remote learning

utica parents on remote learning

Here's ief meteogist bill rdas in theweathr students scrambling for someone to be at home, for the at- home learning...which most agree is less- than-ideal...but many feel is necessary.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports on their struggle.

Stand up 'there are different schools of thought as to what's better to start the school year; all remote, hybrid, all in school learning.

But there's one thing everyone's in agreement about; this has been a very difficult year for education; no easy choices" 24:30 "and it's...it's just hard.

So hard" we found marion cain crying in the utica school district offices parking lot, at kernan school.

Her daughter starts kindergarden this fall.

The pandemic annihilated that milestone.

But more than that, marion is worried about her daughter learning away from a classroom environment.

Utica is going all remote learning the first four weeks of school.

After that, who knows?

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None .

None 22:36 "it's just ...it's hard because you don't feel like they're getting the education, because like i said, i'm a high school dropout.

And the things that they're teaching the kids now, this stuff is like high school, college stuff, and i don't know it."

This working mom won't get much of an argument from utica school superintendent, bruce karam 33:08 "it's just...this is a very hard decision.

It's very difficult timtes i mean i can't even explain it.

I've never seen anything like this" but health and safety have to come first, so the district did what they could to prepare for the best online learning scenario 29:05 "we have a brand new curriculum we purchased a year ago, the 21st century new generation learning standards, a new curriculum for that and we're adapting that now and we've had curriculum committees working on that all summer long to adapt and fine tune to online learning the school's invested $4 million just in chromebooks and wifi hotspots.

Every student will get one, on loan.

In the spring, the district distributed 5000 meals a day and the meals will be available again, during remote learning, at different sites.

There may be students for whom school is their safe haven.

Karam says just because students arent in the classroom doesn't mean they've been forgotten 30:52 "we are gonna have support staff, social workers, guidance counselors, teachers, even.

Will be calling, will be talking th dents, will talking s tehers, he misseselping the other kids...."

But that's hardly the only reason this mom thinks kids should be back in class, now.

She'll tell us why, new at six.

Jf, nc2.

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