{"id":573892371,"date":"2020-07-09T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892371"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T20:34:26","slug":"where-will-children-learn-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/where-will-children-learn-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will children learn this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a now sort-of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2020\/05\/26\/coronavirus-schools-teachers-poll-ipsos-parents-fall-online\/5254729002\/\">famous poll<\/a>, I guess, from May (remember May?) that said 30 percent of parents are &#8220;very likely&#8221; to try homeschooling in the fall. Even more said they were considering it. And a lot of teachers are considering not returning to the classroom this year. Educators are trying to figure all of this out, and there are, as you might imagine a lot of moving parts involved in turned the routine into the crisis-driven responsive.<\/p>\n<p>So we are talking homeschooling here with professor Robert Kunzman, a man who knows all about the research involved.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/855017338&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/on-topic-with-iu\" title=\"On Topic with IU\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Topic with IU<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/on-topic-with-iu\/on-topic-with-iu-discussing-the-prospect-of-homeschooling-with-robert-kunzman\" title=\"On Topic with IU - Discussing the prospect of homeschooling, with Robert Kunzman\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Topic with IU &#8211; Discussing the prospect of homeschooling, with Robert Kunzman<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The rules vary from state-to-state and, in most, <a href=\"https:\/\/hslda.org\/legal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">they are shockingly light<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the third education podcast I&#8217;ve done on this program. I never worked an education beat. Politics and courts and hard news, sure, but never education. I&#8217;m not sure if this qualifies me for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, education is going to be tricky this year. In Indiana the state department of education said &#8220;The local school corporations will figure it out.&#8221; While it probably seems like passing the buck, that does allow for different circumstances over vast geographical areas. And left local superintendents and county health officers to make the call. <\/p>\n<p>It seems like most, here in this immediate area, will be doing some sort of hybrid program. Some days in school, some days out of school. I haven&#8217;t seen the particulars so I shouldn&#8217;t question the efficacy or the thought process behind it. It is, we can all agree, less than ideal, everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>As I write this I just saw that in Dallas, Texas, some 153,000 students are now looking at a September start date. Kicking the can, says the superintendent there, was the backup plan. But as you get closer to launch dates, backups become realities. <\/p>\n<p>And, in something that really matters to casual audiences, college football is facing similar problems. Today you saw the beginning of the end of the 2020 football season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/29435295\/source-big-ten-moving-conference-only-model-all-sports-fall?linkId=93398746\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Big Ten dumped their non-conference schedule<\/a>. It&#8217;s a nod to more flexibility for the games that matter, a teaser of even-more-cash-strapped-smaller-programs or court, or both. And it feels like  <em>frustra sperans<\/em> that we&#8217;ll even get that far.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller <a href=\"http:\/\/thesiac.com\/news\/2020\/7\/9\/general-siac-announces-suspension-of-2020-fall-sports-and-championship-events.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference<\/a>, representing 14 schools across six states, is cutting out the middleman, hope, and has canceled their fall athletic seasons. Sometimes the right decisions are the most difficult ones.<\/p>\n<p>And in New Mexico the governing high school body has today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmact.org\/2020\/07\/2020-nmaa-football-soccer-seasons-postponed\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">canceled football and soccer<\/a> for this fall.<\/p>\n<p>More will follow, near and far.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of this week already reminds me of the second half of that March week when they shut down the basketball tournaments. That was on a Thursday, too.<\/p>\n<p>Solution: Eliminate Thursdays. Let us go directly to Fridays!<\/p>\n<p>But not yet. First I get to Zoom with some of my students. You don&#8217;t pass up those rare summer visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a now sort-of famous poll, I guess, from May (remember May?) that said 30 percent of parents are &#8220;very likely&#8221; to try homeschooling in the fall. Even more said they were considering it. And a lot of teachers are considering not returning to the classroom this year. 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