How Is Distance Learning Going At Sac City Schools? Depends Who You Ask
Children in the Sacramento City Unified School District started the school year with no clear plan for distance learning during the pandemic, following an impasse between the teachers union and administrators over a contract.
As a result, schooling got off to a rocky start for many of the district’s 42,000 students and their families. But parents say the online learning experience varies from school-to-school.
For Alina Cervantes, education couldn’t have started better for her two kids at Phoebe Hearst Elementary in East Sacramento, aside from a hiccup her younger child had logging on to a zoom classroom.
“So far, so good,” Cervantes said, adding that she clocked more than 4 hours of live instruction time where teachers played music for kids, prompted journal exercises and initiated break out rooms for peer-to-peer learning.
“Our teachers are so masterful,” she said.
Gwynnae Byrd had a different story. She has 16-year-old twins, one of whom attends Kennedy High School, and the other C.K McClatchy. They were on different schedules Tuesday.
While her daughter at McClatchy started on the 8:20 a.m. schedule from district administrators, her son wasn’t able to connect with his teacher until 10 a.m.
Byrd said at this early stage, she hasn’t formed an opinion about the quality of education her kids are receiving under distance learning, but she’s concerned that “things are still in such disarray” with the school district.
The school district and the Sacramento City Teachers Association are in a “fact-finding” phase in order to reach an agreement about a distance learning plan, which could take months, CONTINUE READING: How Is Distance Learning Going At Sac City Schools? Depends Who You Ask. - capradio.org
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