{"id":8690,"date":"2020-07-28T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:34:09","slug":"utah-education-association-demands-schools-be-online-only-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/28\/utah-education-association-demands-schools-be-online-only-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Education Association demands schools be online-only this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/education\/2020\/07\/28\/utah-teachers-union\/\">Salt Lake Tribune is reporting<\/a> that \u201cThe largest teachers union in the state is calling on Gov. Gary Herbert to keep Utah schools closed this fall \u2014 saying it\u2019s too dangerous for educators and students to return while cases of the coronavirus remain high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union wants schools to start ONLINE-only in August. My bias is that I am planning on returning my children to in-person school in the fall. My reasoning is that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>My wife and I both work, which makes remote-learning difficult. <\/li><li>The research also shows that young children (we are in elementary school) are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/07\/10\/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are\/\"> less likely to spread the virus<\/a> and therefore they aren\u2019t the petri-dishes we assume they are. <\/li><li>I don\u2019t believe that I educate my child as well as a professional teacher does. <\/li><li>I don\u2019t believe that our teachers have enough training and\/or direction to ensure remote-learning is as effective as in-person learning. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are my reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, i understand that some families have decided on remote schooling. That\u2019s understandable. I also understand that teachers are scared. I\u2019m scared for my kids. I\u2019m scared for their teachers. I\u2019m scared for my kids\u2019 grandparents who are the most impacted. This is serious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, I feel like the subject keeps being treated as a blip versus the new normal. Nothing will fundamentally change by Christmas in the Corona-world. Even if they find a novel vaccine to the novel Corona virus it won\u2019t be widely distributed. So, if we do remote school-only in August it is really remote-school throughout the year. It\u2019s a long year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if the UEA pushes this and forces remote schools, that\u2019s OK. I get it, teachers have decided that\u2019s the way they want to roll. I\u2019m Ok with that and our family will adjust. However, along with agreement, comes high expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If remote-school is demanded by the teachers, then they have to deliver. Education had better be better than ever. I better be able to plop little Bobby down in front of his iPad for six hours a day and learn just as much as he would have during in-person school. I\u2019m not the teacher, the real teacher is the teacher. That\u2019s my expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s frankly the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that \u201cThe largest teachers union in the state is calling on Gov. Gary Herbert to keep Utah schools&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}