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Because its the 248th Monday since March 16th?Dayton and Fairborn schools are also going all remote till after New Year's.
(Why do I keep thinking today is Monday?)

Because its the 248th Monday since March 16th?Dayton and Fairborn schools are also going all remote till after New Year's.
(Why do I keep thinking today is Monday?)
The report, based on surveys from 140 countries, paints an alarming picture of a generation facing āa trifecta of threats: direct consequences of the disease itself, interruption in essential services and increasing poverty and inequality."
If the interruption to basic services including vaccinations and health care does not improve, Unicef said that as many as two million children could die in the next 12 months and there could be an additional 200,000 stillbirths.
The report also found that school closures did little to slow the spread of the ***** while causing long-term harm. While higher education institutions have played a role in community transmission, studies cited in the report showed āno consistent association between school reopening status and *********-19 infection rates.ā
āUnless the global community urgently changes priorities, the potential of this generation of young people may well be lost,ā Unicef warned.
āThe longer schools are closed, the more children suffer from extensive learning losses with long term negative impacts, including future income and health,ā the report found.
As of November, according to the study, nearly 600 million students are still affected by school closures, with more governments considering renewed closures as the ***** surges, the report found.
New York City is closing its entire public school system starting Thursday, and other cities are considering similar closures, but Unicef found that such measures have not proven effective in slowing the spread of the *****.
āChildren and schools are not the main drivers of the epidemic across countries,ā the report found. āEvidence shows that the net benefits of keeping schools open outweigh the costs of closing them. Data from 191 countries show no consistent association between school reopening status and *********-19 infection rates.ā
And what is the political motivation again?When and how should we reopen schools? New report from Unicef says immediately. That is, if we want to follow science rather than political motivations.
Here I go again - talking to a wall -When and how should we reopen schools? New report from Unicef says immediately. That is, if we want to follow science rather than political motivations.
As reported in the New York Times
Which is why it is up to governments and other relevant decision-makers to do so. Education is vastly more important than indoor dining and bars. There are appropriate workarounds for sports (which are also important for people's health): encouraging individual sports, focusing on outdoor activities in which distancing is possible, allowing teams to continue if they operate as part of a bubble.If we want to have schools open, then we need to priotize that and do actions designed to keep them open.
No indoor dining, no bars, no sports (including k-12, college, select, intramural, etc), no large group activities. I suspect people aren't that willing to prioritize it if they have to give up their favorite activities.
It's not that I disagree with you but the problem is everything can have a workaround if you really want to work around it.Which is why it is up to governments and other relevant decision-makers to do so. Education is vastly more important than indoor dining and bars. There are appropriate workarounds for sports (which are also important for people's health): encouraging individual sports, focusing on outdoor activities in which distancing is possible, allowing teams to continue if they operate as part of a bubble.
No, that's not the same. The viirus doesn't go off the clock at 10pm, and ventilation is an issue indoors even if there are only four people to a table. The rule of thumb (with modifications, obviously) is outdoors good, indoors not so much - and education is an indoor activity that needs to be prioritized over others.It's not that I disagree with you but the problem is everything can have a workaround if you really want to work around it.
Close the bars by 10 PM. Keep restaurants open but a maximum of 4 people to a table. Have large group activities outdoors, or indoors with lots and lots of space between people. Everything will be fine just as long as nobody sneezes.
Its football, volleyball, basketball and baseball here. And select sports.Individual sports are not where the pressure to allow sports is coming from. No one in my hometown gives a dang if kids will have permission to play tennis or track.
It's basketball or no basketball.
(It better be no basketball).
DeWine thinks high school basketball will be o.k. because there aren't as many players on each team. And they are still going with only masked parents in the stands (inside). Then someone said it's up to the individual school. Well, if a school decided not to play, or can't play because of quarantines or something, that affects the team they were going to play that week. And might affect whoever they played last week's game against this week. We saw it in football. If one team had a positive case, the team they had contact with last week had to not play. And this was with all the padding and helmets and stuff. Basketball players are more exposed and they all touch the same basketball. And then there are the parties after the game. But....sports (parents).Individual sports are not where the pressure to allow sports is coming from. No one in my hometown gives a dang if kids will have permission to play tennis or track.
It's basketball or no basketball.
(It better be no basketball).
Oh, absolutely they will fail out. If they go the nursing route, they have to take an in-person exam comparable to the ACT but with an anatomy/chemistry-heavy science section. The score on this one exam is the same weight as the entire overall GPA and they will likely bomb it. But the rest of the programs are reliant on overall GPA and then science/math-specific GPA which isTony, that is awful, especially about the cheating.
But IF they get admitted to a nursing or allied health professional program with no academic background and willingness to cheat they will fail and get kicked out. I have seen it happen.
Wow...Our school district has no students back in schools but sports are doing "conditioning" workouts.![]()
My daughter in law (40's) is in the advanced track BSN program as she had taken many required courses prior to entering the program.Oh, absolutely they will fail out. If they go the nursing route, they have to take an in-person exam comparable to the ACT but with an anatomy/chemistry-heavy science section. The score on this one exam is the same weight as the entire overall GPA and they will likely bomb it. But the rest of the programs are reliant on overall GPA and then science/math-specific GPA which isa bit under these circumstances. It's one thing to get kicked out eventually, but it's another to get in via a once-a-year ranking system and take up a spot.
I should be fine and my grades will be strong (I'm carrying over a B from 16 years ago that'll probably put me between a 3.85-3.9 overall), but people are really milking CV and their fake sob stories to the extreme. I'm sure some of the teachers here can share the level of ridiculousness they've heard in the last 8 months. I don't know how many times I've read 'you don't know what I'm going through' in group chats-- okay, we all have something going on. If you don't have time for college-level work, then focus on working and go to school at a different time, perhaps?
As my first journey through school started in 2004 (and Blackboard was just barely a thing) and my second experience was very computer science/programming-heavy where it's completely obvious if you've cheated/copied work, this is my first time using programs like Lockdown Browser/ProctorU. In theory, they should be great. But people still have it figured out how to get around it and put exactly zero effort into learning anything.
I assume that, given that you seem to be taking pre-reqs, you are in freshman-sophomore level classes?One thing I'm going to throw into this thread is how annoying it is to have virtual classes with a bunch of people who literally do not give a shit about anything this semester and try to pull the 'OMG my life is turned upside down' act every two minutes.
Yeah.it's literally just people complaining non-stop about the work they have to do and/or the ways they have figured out how to cheat on proctored exams. Literally, students bragging to 30-45 other people they've never met how they can go around the system.
Yeah.Then you have the students that were complaining about how they don't want to go back to a class full of 9 other students because the risk is just too much, yet in these same groups, they are also sharing how drunk they got on the weekend with their friends or out at some bar/club. Same as the people saying they can't work but their social media stories show them going above and beyond.
That's a common excuse. It's also often true. My department did a study on why students drop out of freshman comp a few years ago and the most common reason was work conflicts. And I think it's especially true right now, as students get called into work all the time because other people are out sick or are in quarantine. Again, this happens a lot more when the economy is bad, as students, like everyone else, have to try to hang on to their jobs because they don't have a lot of options and employers know this.I also cannot stand the amount of people with literal zero common sense. I saw one student arguing with a teacher in the virtual room chat about how they couldn't take a proctored exam at the time it was administered because they 'had work' (this is after the exam took place), when the time was at the exact same time as the actual class itself. What does this mean?
Yeah. This is my least favorite thing about teaching on Zoom. But this is also to be expected if you are teaching on Zoom and you lecture the whole time. It's early yet, but preliminary studies show that we have about 20 minutes and after that, students start checking out. We are told that we shouldn't lecture the entire class and should give them things to do in breakout rooms. That does tend to sort out who is present and engaged and who isn't.Since most Professors don't require much in the way of participation besides actually being in the room (camera/mic off), the person was probably just signing in and then putting their phone aside for the entirety of the class the entire semester.
I don't give tests, so I can't speak to that, but so far, I am not seeing anything in the undergrad classes that looks all that different from what I normally see in undergrad classes early in economic downturns. When things are really bad, we get students who are there just for financial aid checks. That's a whole 'nother issue. I am pretty sure I have a couple of those right now, but I won't know for sure until the last week of classes.The level of education for the next 2 or so years is completely screwed across the board.
Cheaters usually don't get good grades. I am sure there are exceptions, but all of those people who cheat do so because they don't know the material and so even when they pool resources, the resources are so scant that this doesn't translate into good grades. They usually aren't trying to get As; they are trying to pass. It's all about getting by for one more day.Oh, absolutely they will fail out. If they go the nursing route, they have to take an in-person exam comparable to the ACT but with an anatomy/chemistry-heavy science section. The score on this one exam is the same weight as the entire overall GPA and they will likely bomb it. But the rest of the programs are reliant on overall GPA and then science/math-specific GPA which isa bit under these circumstances. It's one thing to get kicked out eventually, but it's another to get in via a once-a-year ranking system and take up a spot.
Yeah, when my daughter was taking exams last spring, I observed her taking a couple of exams so I could see how it worked and I could see a lot of ways students could cheat. Again, I don't think we have figured out this out.As my first journey through school started in 2004 (and Blackboard was just barely a thing) and my second experience was very computer science/programming-heavy where it's completely obvious if you've cheated/copied work, this is my first time using programs like Lockdown Browser/ProctorU. In theory, they should be great. But people still have it figured out how to get around it and put exactly zero effort into learning anything.
Yeah- never had to take anything other than astronomy (1 AND 2!) and a basic human nutrition for sciences in the B.A. before because I definitely wanted the easy experienceI assume that, given that you seem to be taking pre-reqs, you are in freshman-sophomore level classes?
From my own experiences this last few months, it's basically always this: People figured that classes were going to most likely be online the entire semester, they signed up for classes regardless of session time and/or campus (AKA sought out the easier Professors, sometimes with 10 minutes in between classes on campuses an hour away from each other), and they figured it was going to be more like an online course rather than actually having to sit in on the class at the time it was offered. So I don't think it's a case of them having work suddenly coming up.. I think they were just looking for an easy way out from the start and then cannot understand the logic of sitting their asses in front of their computers during the time they were supposed to be in class.There are three basic responses to this--you can assume that they all lie, you can assume that they all tell the truth or you can try to judge which ones are lying and which ones are being truthful. After a few years or trying the other two, I have gone with assuming they all tell the truth, even when I know that's not the case, because in the long run, the honest ones need a break and the liars will take themselves out.
My brother did that a few times (and he would wait till the last day of full-refund), so that's nothing newI don't give tests, so I can't speak to that, but so far, I am not seeing anything in the undergrad classes that looks all that different from what I normally see in undergrad classes early in economic downturns. When things are really bad, we get students who are there just for financial aid checks. That's a whole 'nother issue. I am pretty sure I have a couple of those right now, but I won't know for sure until the last week of classes.
Yeah, when my daughter was taking exams last spring, I observed her taking a couple of exams so I could see how it worked and I could see a lot of ways students could cheat. Again, I don't think we have figured out this out.
The report says so much more. The title alone says a lot about what else it says.When and how should we reopen schools? New report from Unicef says immediately.
Averting a lost ********* generation
A six-point plan to respond, recover and reimagine a post-********* world for every child
Probably true, as A&P is always THE problem sequence for students who transfer. All state colleges in Ohio are in alignment--meaning that we have 100% transferability for core courses between all state schools--but it's always a problem for students coming from other states or from private colleges.I believe I read that I would've had to take anatomy/physiology anyways, as those specific credits are only good for 10 years in Florida regardless of your past degrees.
Oh, trust me--OSU has its share of students like this. It's not as apparent when you are in those huge, in-person freshman lecture classes. By the time everyone is winnowed out to upper-level classes where you know your fellow students, the people who don't want to be there are mostly gone.I'm also getting this all done at a cheap public University, because I still pay a significant amount of loans and not looking to add any more to that, so the motivation of students (adding to CV concerns) is going to differ than what I was mostly used to at OSU.
Yeah, I have some of those. But I try to do a lot of in-class work; if they don't show up and do the assignments, they lose points. They might pass, but they won't get an A or B. And most freshman think a C is insulting.So I don't think it's a case of them having work suddenly coming up.. I think they were just looking for an easy way out from the start and then cannot understand the logic of sitting their asses in front of their computers during the time they were supposed to be in class.
Definitely not. But the experienced scam artists know that the key is to show up on the first and last days of class (or something close to that). I have one that I am just about positive I will see for the second time on the last day of class, but we shall see.My brother did that a few times (and he would wait till the last day of full-refund), so that's nothing new![]()
Yeah. But.I've read it all in terms of ways to cheat, and it's never going to be fool-proof. The ProctorU has someone actually watching in on you while you test-- they can see you and hear you. I was surprised at the thoroughness the other night when I took my first exam this way. They take control of your computer, they make sure there's no screen-sharing or any other programs enabled, they have you scan the room to make sure there's nothing on/under your desk or near you, they make you take a photo of your screen with your phone to show that you don't have any notes around the edges, etc, and then they make you put the phone out of reach while on the camera.
I also learned that if you talk to yourself (read the questions out loud/use deduction out loud), it also triggers a review![]()
Yeah. This is my least favorite thing about teaching on Zoom. But this is also to be expected if you are teaching on Zoom and you lecture the whole time. It's early yet, but preliminary studies show that we have about 20 minutes and after that, students start checking out. We are told that we shouldn't lecture the entire class and should give them things to do in breakout rooms. That does tend to sort out who is present and engaged and who isn't.
But there are times when I need to lecture an entire class period. In F2F classes, I ask a lot of questions during lecture to keep them engaged, but that doesn't work on Zoom. I still haven't figured this out.
Have you tried polls yet?