Chicago public schools to hold all classes online this fall: local media - Reuters
Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest school district in the United States, will hold all classes online this fall for its 350,000 students amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest school district in the United States, will hold all classes online this fall for its 350,000 students amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported on Tuesday.
School officials are expected to unveil details of their plan as early as Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported citing unnamed sources.
The development came shortly after the Chicago Teachers Union threatened a work stoppage if the school system went with its original plan to hold some in-person classes.
A Chicago Teachers Union official who asked not to be identified told Reuters on Tuesday afternoon that the union plans to discuss early next week a possible strike vote demanding remote learning.
It would be the strongest action yet, led by rank-and-file teachers across the nation who have voiced frustration this summer over plans to reopen schools and return to in-person learning in the fall.
School reopenings have also become a white-hot election issue after President Donald Trump demanded a return to in-person learning throughout the country, while Democrats urge remote schooling until COVID-19 case rates flatten.
Chicago Public Schools were planning to have students in classrooms for two days week in pods of 15 pupils. Parents can choose to have their student take classes entirely online.
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The city announced a few minutes ago that all Chicago public school classes will be held online until the second semester, which would be after the holidays and the start of 2021.
Most "essential" workers simply suck it up and go to work. They wear their masks and practice distancing.
Guess the cowardly teachers don't consider themselves essential.
I'm sure they consider themselves essential..............but not the kids and the quality of education they receive.
It's one good thing about covid. More home schooling and keeping kids away from the brainwashing of the liberal teachers. Home schooling is getting a big boost.
Someone has to do the on line classroom teaching....and I wouldn't call it homeschooling if kids are still being taught by a virtual teacher
Probably a wise decision
We heard from Trump and Kushner that covid and its ramifications would be long gone by the fall. Kushner said around Memorial Day that "the country will be 'rocking' by July". Now July has come and gone and little is getting that much better.
The Trump administration blew it.
I heard a guy who has written a book about it say this morning that we should go back to the beginning, totally shut the country down for 4-6 weeks, and then it will all be over.
The half hearted attempts to achieve 70% normality have only delayed progress to beat the virus.
The moron Trump and his son in law are to blame.
We tried the shutdown but people decided BLM and stripper parties were more important.
And put another several million people out of work??
What a brilliant idea!!
I don't even think a total shutdown of 4-6 weeks will work. Some of us will still have to go to work and people still need essential items.
Honestly, I don't have a solution. I just keep hoping for a vaccine very soom
It seems to have worked in Europe.
Europe is a lot, lot smaller than the US in both land and population
No it didn’t.
The combined populations for Germany, U.K. , France, Italy and Spain is roughly the same as the US population. Throw in the other smaller western European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium and western Europe is larger than the U.S. in population.
I stand corrected
Seems rather amazing that the teacher's unions are endorsing home schooling. Now all that is needed are vouchers to make this type of home schooling permanent. Of course, with home schooling there won't be a need for teacher's unions. Or public classrooms for that matter.
Online education allows automation and artificial intelligence to replace teachers. Property taxes could be redirected toward providing access to public high-speed broadband. And government vouchers would address inequalities and disparities in education. Online education would certainly be more efficient, cost effective, and less prone to perpetuating inequalities than the 19th century model of classroom public education.
And then kids will become best friends with robots and other artificial personalities instead of other kids.
Dystopia here we come.
They're already besties with their video gaming consoles and only talk to other kids on line
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