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My wife is an educator.

Asking teachers to switch to paper assignments might not be feasible depending on the curriculum they're being asked to teach against, number of students in the classroom (I'm going to assume that your kid is in a public school; class sizes have been increasing due to funding cuts), books that they're using, etc.

For example: one of the classes my wife taught years ago was designed around an online LMS. All quizzes, learning checks, exams and practice was done on this platform. Some of her students didn't have access to a computer at home. They would either be given a loaner or were given instructions on how to obtain one from the local library. In this situation, switching to paper grading was not possible.



Oh, I guess it's no one's fault then and nothing can be done. Thank you for explaining that bit in case OP hadn't gotten the full coverage of excuses from their local bureaucracy.

In reality, giving kids Doubleclick Chromebooks with unsupervised general Internet access is gross negligence on the part of the school. Pacifying kids with digital dopamine is likely why class sizes have been able to continue growing. So it's a bit rich to then trot it out as a reason why they can't start to undo the horrible path that they've sent kids down.

Then again the whole dynamic isn't really that surprising for the US - personal responsibility is held as sacrosanct when rationalizing how it's right and just for corporations to be deliberately attacking us, but then when it comes time to actually do the work of being responsible there are no resources to support it because most wealth has been vacuumed away by the Keynesian MBA parasites.


I didn't say it's no-ones fault.

Public schools have been under attack for decades; curriculums that can only be executed with the help of laptops is a side effect.

What I was trying to say was that the situation at hand is very likely not the teachers fault; they probably agree with you!

If you want more outrage, spend 15 minutes on /r/Teachers.




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