Isn't the use of technology to stay at home during Covid shutdowns how they got so far behind?

I don't think they would get a better education playing their video games and snap chat on snow days.

Boco, I think you are right that kids these days on average are not as tough as they were 50 years ago. However, if I was in charge of 1000 kids getting to school safely, I don't know how many I'd be with them dying or being maimed because I made them come to school in inclement weather. You probably had 10 kids in your one room school house. Put 5 times that many on 20 buses and put them out on bad roads for better than hour each with all the all the other traffic, many of whom can't drive for crap, you're asking for trouble. And that doesn't even include all the 14-16 year olds trying to drive themselves.

Especially when they can do some on-line schooling for those few days a year...

I loved snowy days.
That 72 tnt was my ride to high school
They wouldnt close the school here in town when my kids were in public school,but they would cancel busses for the kids that lived out of town when the highway was closed.
My kids went to school and went to the sliding hill for a few hours after school only coming in for supper,then back out.
Of course the kids had lots of fur to wear so they spent just as much time out in winter as in summer.

2 inches of snow here they close the school. Worried about lawsuits if a bus slides off the road. Grandson told me about a kid smoking pot on the bus with a vape pen. I told him not to try it and why. My lovely bride called the school. Driver said he hadn't smelled anything. I suspect the smoker got it from his folks. Grandson is in 6th grade and the smoker in high school. Grandson didn't get thumped so I don't think the smoker knows. Me and gramma had a talk.

For the last 2 years when there's a snow day here the school makes it a "virtual" learning day so the kids do school on the computer but teachers don't have to teach. That means one of has to stay home and help the kids, asked the wife if I could make them knock a days worth of teacher pay off the property taxes... guess not haha

Yep , unfortunately the libtard snowflakes produce more snowflakes . Lots of coddled crybabies these days

you forgot to add that both ways to and from school were uphill and you had wolves biting you in the a## all the way.

That wouldn't fly here. My son is the transportation director for the school district here. All our busses here have video cameras rolling and are used for review for any kind of problems. Danny, your wife's call would have been taken very seriously, the video reviewed, and disciplinary action taken. When one of the parents calls to chew my son out about a student being disciplined for something their little angel would never do, he invites them to come and watch the video. Sometimes he will even offer them double or nothing if they call him a liar about the situation.

As far as snow days there sure is a lot of chest thumping going on by a bunch of old men.

Nothing wrong with a good old snow day gets pretty bad here on the Mt if it's to bad boss will call it I have to use a personal day usually good for about 2 or 3 a winter

I agree. This seems like a really stupid complaint.

Public education was never meant to be a babysitter so you can work without worrying about your kids. That's what most people think today, school is a babysitter, heaven forbid they might have to make a sacrifice of their time or money for their kids.

As far as the teachers, they are probably online working at home. When you come home from your job at night do you put in several hours through the week for your job? They have to grade papers, prepare new lessons & programs, get supplies for class, or a myriad of other things that need done for teaching your kids that goes on after official school hours.

Many kids got behind during Covid because they were unsupervised. They didn't apply themselves and didn't do any homework. A teacher told me that some kids in her class never once logged in. What were the parents thinking?

Being on a school board is a thankless job. Impossible to suit everyone and states are changing laws each year as well.

Thank you to all who have volunteered to help at their local school and to those who served on school boards.

Agree. We need parental involvement and a strong public education system in this country.

When my wife whines about working "after hours" grading papers and such, I remind her that she knew that came with the job. She doesn't appreciate my compassion.

My gramma taught school in a rural one class room 1-8 school. to graduate high school she had to stay with a relative in a town about 30 miles away. To become an elementary teacher she had to complete a 6 week course during the summer. That fall she was the teacher. The kids who completed her elementary education were better educated than at least half the high school graduates today. Even if dollars were matched by inflation their education cost taxpayers less money per kid.

Her teaching certificate was substantially less than a degree in elementary education today. to teach high school in those days did require a bachelors degree. LOTS of kids never went to high school.

I don't blame the teachers. I blame the takeover by the federal government.

K52 there is a camera on the bus. Kid ducked behind the seat to take a puff. School doesn't want to get involved. That kid has a lot family problems. Writing him a ticket, kicking him out of school wont help him. Some kids don't have much of a chance because of family. It will never change. Been that way forever. I don't want my grandson fighting with a high school kid over confiding to me. I want him to continue trusting me. Some things the authorities will only make worse. There has to be a few, but kids that were helped by the foster care system are pretty rare.