TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE – Dad Gone Wild
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― A Study in Scarlet
“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”
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The day begins as most do around the Weber household. My nine-year-old son Peter is in the recliner with his Ipad. I’m sitting with my laptop catching up on the morning’s news. A record plays in the background, providing the soundtrack for our lives. This morning it happens to be the Beatle’s Rubber Soul.
“Daddy,” Peter says from the chair, “They should just wait to start school till they can do it in person.”
“Yeah buddy, that’s not going to happen,” I respond.
“Why?”
“Because that’s the decision they’ve made.”
“And you agree with every decision they make? Come on Daddy.”
He goes on to expound on why he’s not a fan of online learning. It’s boring. Kids have trouble learning in person, how do we expect them to do it on a computer. There are so many glitches that you don’t really get to learn. Don’t people know what real school looks like? He closes with the observation that many of those making decisions about schooling haven’t actually been in class for a decade and so he graciously volunteers his spot in order to provide them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the classroom.
His comments are not unlike those I hear frequently expressed on social media and in private parent conversations on a regular basis. Teachers and administrators are working diligently to smooth the rough edges, but digital learning is very much a work in progress. That is the essential thought to remember right now – It’s a work in progress
The way virtual learning looks today is not the way it is going to look next month. And it will CONTINUE READING: TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE – Dad Gone Wild