Have you noticed a drop in attendance this year, compared to previous years?
The article acknowledges that one reason students are absent is due to influenza and COVID throughout the community. I also wonder if some of it may be explained by parents pulling students out of school to go on overseas hollidays that were postponed during the COVID lockdowns.
Do you think the drop in attendance is just temporary, or is indicative of something deeper and longer lasting?
Do you think remote learning is really as effective as face-to-face learning? In my state, the NAPLAN result indicate that students are about a term behind in their literacy and numeracy as a result of the COVID lockdowns:
https://www.smh.com.au/education/simply-staggering-nsw-students-fall-months-behind-due-to-covid-19-20201126-p56ibk.html
In terms of the drug issue you raise, do you think that remote learning would improve or worsen the situation? In school, the students are exposed to some positive role models and educational messages concerning drug (mis)use, whereas in a strictly home environment they may or may not have access to that. Being in school could result in peer pressure to partake in illicit drug use, but they could also get this exposure from peer groups outside the school environment.
i meant especially in the us. teaching in the us is too much risk. too much unruly students. but also if kids live in the outback or something one could give them a break from commuting for a while, if it exists, ot weather too hot, etc …
I think in Australia too then, post-covid, students may have become a bit more unruly, and classroom routines and expectations need to be re-taught and reestablished. The unruliness generally doesn’t generally rise to the level of safety concerns, although there was a case recently where a casual teacher was provoked and got into a physical altercation with a student that was filmed and widely distributed on the internet, and criminal charges were brought against that teacher. Gun violence not a big a concern in Australia due to much stricter gun laws than in the US – is this much of a concern over there?
according to the news yea. a teacher getting pepper sprayed for taking a student’s smartphone, plus the school shootings. it ain’t worth it over there.