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We as a community of parents working to help educate our children during these unprecedented times, ask that you hear our concerns. We are grateful for the many professionals at Oakwood City Schools working to help continue a high level of educational standards, but we also ask that the district allow parents a format to provide feedback. We also expect that the district will respond with empathy, understanding, and support for parents and students. Each family is impacted in unique ways by the pandemic and a "one size fits all" approach is not working for many of us. Some of the family dynamics we are facing include both parents working full-time, having multiple children in different grades, children on IEP’s, single parenting, being on the front-line of fighting this pandemic, or facing illness ourselves. We hereby request the following:
On the topics of Related Arts. We ask that the district officially announce that Specials/Related Arts assignments are all optional. This is consistent with what other district in the state have done to try to lessen the burden on families. Some of us are extremely overwhelmed just navigating and completing the core classwork and the added stress these assignments place on families is not in our best interest at this time. We appreciate the lessons and recognize the importance of these subjects, but in a time of crisis some of us cannot do any more right now. We would like the related arts lessons to be delivered in a way that is more accessible so if we do find ourselves capable of completing some of them, less time is wasted navigating to the assignments. The assignments should be delivered in a way that the children can access them on their own. Lastly, we feel that if a child submits work for a special, the specials teacher should provide feedback to that child to acknowledge their effort.
We appreciate that teachers are providing extra assignments for when children need more structured activities, but we request that these extra assignments be clearly marked as “optional”.
When new content is introduced in a subject, we request that teachers record themselves teaching that lesson before expecting children to complete online assignments. Links to these video lessons can be provided so students can learn the new material from his/her own teacher rather than relying on a website to teach them new material.
We request that an online survey be distributed to district parents on an urgent timeline so that the district can gather feedback, be made aware of unique challenges some families are facing, and take an approach of continuous evaluation and improvement of content delivery. Much could be learned from asking us what is working, what is not working, and how each of us are being uniquely impacted.
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19 Comments
My 2nd grader spent 1.5 hours on Art alone yesterday. The video that was given was poor quality and misleading. It was frustrating on all parts. I am so appreciative of the arts (believe me, I majored in the Arts!) However, there has to be a better way!
I could not agree more. I have contacted school administration on several occasions asking for some empathy and understanding with little response. There had been no accounting for different family dynamics.
As a full time working mom, I would like to see more daily or weekly instruction from the teachers and assignments young students can do on their own. I am seriously struggling with balancing my daily workload and also teaching my son everything that is being provided from his main class and specials.
I would be interested in discussing ways we can support our kiddos mental health. The focus has solely been on academics, but we all know our mental health is in need of support during this time as well. Thank you for considering this topic of discussion.
Thankfully my daughter’s teacher has done a great job of teaching the math lesson on Google meet… She also stays available during the day to meet on Google Meet and answer questions when the kids have them. She just leaves her computer open and the kids can pop on and off as they need to with questions. Maybe this is something the other teachers can do as well. Would love for the arts to be optional. We do much of that at home as it is and the extra stress on the kids is not ideal.
Thank you
Well stated! Both of my daughters have been more stressed than ever during this time! We all need a break.
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We as a community of parents working to help educate our children during these unprecedented times, ask that you hear our concerns. We are grateful for the many professionals at Oakwood City Schools working to help continue a high level of educational standards, but we also ask that the district allow parents a format to provide feedback. We also expect that the district will respond with empathy, understanding, and support for parents and students. Each family is impacted in unique ways by the pandemic and a "one size fits all" approach is not working for many of us. Some of the family dynamics we are facing include both parents working full-time, having multiple children in different grades, children on IEP’s, single parenting, being on the front-line of fighting this pandemic, or facing illness ourselves. We hereby request the following:
On the topics of Related Arts. We ask that the district officially announce that Specials/Related Arts assignments are all optional. This is consistent with what other district in the state have done to try to lessen the burden on families. Some of us are extremely overwhelmed just navigating and completing the core classwork and the added stress these assignments place on families is not in our best interest at this time. We appreciate the lessons and recognize the importance of these subjects, but in a time of crisis some of us cannot do any more right now. We would like the related arts lessons to be delivered in a way that is more accessible so if we do find ourselves capable of completing some of them, less time is wasted navigating to the assignments. The assignments should be delivered in a way that the children can access them on their own. Lastly, we feel that if a child submits work for a special, the specials teacher should provide feedback to that child to acknowledge their effort.
We appreciate that teachers are providing extra assignments for when children need more structured activities, but we request that these extra assignments be clearly marked as “optional”.
When new content is introduced in a subject, we request that teachers record themselves teaching that lesson before expecting children to complete online assignments. Links to these video lessons can be provided so students can learn the new material from his/her own teacher rather than relying on a website to teach them new material.
We request that an online survey be distributed to district parents on an urgent timeline so that the district can gather feedback, be made aware of unique challenges some families are facing, and take an approach of continuous evaluation and improvement of content delivery. Much could be learned from asking us what is working, what is not working, and how each of us are being uniquely impacted.
Updates
April 10, 2020
The momentum is undeniable. Families are speaking up and finally being heard.
19 Comments
This whole online learning has been hectic. I wish the Google Meets were consistent for every subject (i.e. MW at 1PM for science/social studies, T&Th 10:30am) and that parents were also emailed with notifications and not just the students. I agree that teachers should record themselves and have a few videos a week with lessons rather than having the students learn everything on their own. So far, my daughter’s math teacher has done all of these in a consistent basis, but it would be helpful for all parents to have that for every subject. As for specials, they should be optional, but let’s not forget that these are full-time teachers and they have to do lessons just like core subject instructors.
My 2nd grader spent 1.5 hours on Art alone yesterday. The video that was given was poor quality and misleading. It was frustrating on all parts. I am so appreciative of the arts (believe me, I majored in the Arts!) However, there has to be a better way!
I could not agree more. I have contacted school administration on several occasions asking for some empathy and understanding with little response. There had been no accounting for different family dynamics.
As a full time working mom, I would like to see more daily or weekly instruction from the teachers and assignments young students can do on their own. I am seriously struggling with balancing my daily workload and also teaching my son everything that is being provided from his main class and specials.
I would be interested in discussing ways we can support our kiddos mental health. The focus has solely been on academics, but we all know our mental health is in need of support during this time as well. Thank you for considering this topic of discussion.
Thankfully my daughter’s teacher has done a great job of teaching the math lesson on Google meet… She also stays available during the day to meet on Google Meet and answer questions when the kids have them. She just leaves her computer open and the kids can pop on and off as they need to with questions. Maybe this is something the other teachers can do as well. Would love for the arts to be optional. We do much of that at home as it is and the extra stress on the kids is not ideal.
Thank you
Well stated! Both of my daughters have been more stressed than ever during this time! We all need a break.
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This whole online learning has been hectic. I wish the Google Meets were consistent for every subject (i.e. MW at 1PM for science/social studies, T&Th 10:30am) and that parents were also emailed with notifications and not just the students. I agree that teachers should record themselves and have a few videos a week with lessons rather than having the students learn everything on their own. So far, my daughter’s math teacher has done all of these in a consistent basis, but it would be helpful for all parents to have that for every subject. As for specials, they should be optional, but let’s not forget that these are full-time teachers and they have to do lessons just like core subject instructors.