Chinanews, August 4th. According to the US "World Journal" report, with the arrival of the American school day, whether to let children return to school for class has become a big problem for parents. In the eyes of Chinese-American parent Lin Xiaojuan in Chicago, online classes are equivalent to "classes in vain." This is the conclusion she has drawn from her son's online lessons in the past few months.
Lin Xiaojuan said that online classes are not many people think that "the teacher has been hanging on the Internet to teach students", but mainly "the children follow the teacher's email to do their homework". Most of the "online class time" requires children to be very self-disciplined in order to have a learning effect. But if you let your children go back to school, they are also worried about being infected, so whether or not to go back to school is really a dilemma for parents.
In Lin Xiaojuan's view, his son who is studying in an elementary school near Chinatown has been significantly less effective in online lessons in the past two to three months. "From Monday to Friday, the teacher will send an email in the middle of the night to inform the students of the next day's homework. After the child wakes up, they will follow the instructions to write the homework." There is only one hour per week for each subject in the real face-to-face network with the teacher. This time is not for the teacher to teach the children, but for asking homework questions.
“Before the epidemic, children followed the teacher in face-to-face classes for 5 or 6 hours a day. After the epidemic, they only had 1 hour face-to-face with the teacher, and through online classes.” Lin Xiaojuan said that children were in the critical period of learning. After a short transition, it seems that there is no hope of returning to school in the new semester.
During this period, Lin Xiaojuan also exchanged information with several familiar parents in social groups. Although they are dissatisfied with online classes, they are still afraid that children will be infected when they return to school. Everyone still tends to "safety first." Lin Xiaojuan said that the main concern is whether children stay in the indoor classroom for a long time and whether they can wear a mask for a long time.
"Online lessons are completely fake for lower grade children." Chinese parent Tang Jun said that 8-year-old children should sit in front of the computer obediently, unless it is playing video games. He very much wants his children to go back to school, but he sees related research on the children who may be susceptible, and he is worried that the children will be infected after they arrive at school.
Tang Jun said that he had also considered simply letting the children change to "home schooling" in the new school year, but after collecting information, he found that it is quite difficult for the children to teach themselves when the couple are both office workers. And when I was notified by the school to choose "two days back to school, three days online class", it was really a headache. (Huang Huiling)