Current Events > Are they really expecting kids to be in front a screen 8 hours, 5 days a week?

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Is this for real?

Are children expected to do 8 hours of schooling, 5 days a week in front of a computer screen?
Then even more screen time to do and turn in assignments?


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I cant even focus on my real job that much
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Hasn't there been enough significant research done on the long-term health effects caused by overexposure to computer screens?

Imagine how much worse it is on those who are still growing and developing.

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What's your solution?

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Villain posted...

What's your solution?

Not permanently damaging children.
Delaying their education for 12 months is safer alternative.

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Or slowing their progression and having them required to do 3-5 hours of screen time.
A safe alternative that still keeps them and their minds engaged but also takes into account their physical safety as well.

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Wtf do you think they've been doing this whole quarantine? Lol
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KINDERFELD posted...

Not permanently damaging children.

KINDERFELD posted...

Delaying their education for 12 months

okay boomer

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KINDERFELD posted...

Hasn't there been enough significant research done on the long-term health effects caused by overexposure to computer screens?

Imagine how much worse it is on those who are still growing and developing.

Its gotta be pretty damn bad for you

Is swear I was happier and more active as a kid lol
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KINDERFELD posted...

Or slowing their progression and having them required to do 3-5 hours of screen time.

The local districts are pretty much 30 min instruction 30 min of optional independent study for each period/hour, so while its 8-3 its really only half of that mandatory

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Wtf do you think they've been doing this whole quarantine? Lol

And now we're going to add a mandatory 8 more hours of screen time.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Wtf do you think they've been doing this whole quarantine? Lol

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Yeah. Youre right. Kids would never spend that amount of time in front of a screen normally, especially if they were stuck at home.

Cellphone in hand while in front a computer screen.

You guys act like you haven't done that before while watching tv too.


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KINDERFELD posted...

And now we're going to add a mandatory 8 more hours of screen time.

It'll be no different than what is currently happening right now other than they'll be forced to learn shit instead of watching Roblox on YouTube or playing Fortnite.
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KINDERFELD posted...

You guys act like you haven't done that before while watching tv too.

Can you cite a single person in this topic acting like that.

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If it is a video game kids do it ezpz

I Like Toast posted...

Can you cite a single person in this topic acting like that.

I'm saying the solution isn't more screen time when we already acknowledge that too much screen time is linked to certain long-term impairments.

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Only weird luddite types and boomers moan about "screens"

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Captain_Qwark posted...

Would you still move everyone up a grade? Seniors just skip their final year? Or hold everyone back a year?

Probably more beneficial to hold everyone back a year, that way children receive their full education.
We have gone through worse as a civilization. Kids can get over being held back a year due to a global pandemic.

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It's the best possible situation right now. Online studying at home is horribly prone to procrastination, but the alternative is bundling kids and teachers up like a viral petri dish.

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This is just an opinion since I don't think data exists on this, but I think freezing school for a year would result in needing more than a year to make up for it.

This isn't summer break where you'll forget some stuff but review it at the start of the next year.

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Hayame Zero posted...

It's the best possible situation right now. Online studying at home is horribly prone to procrastination, but the alternative is bundling kids and teachers up like a viral petri dish.

Nah.
Just more realistic expectations from kids in general. They know things aren't normal. They can't go outside and if they go near their grandparents, they could kill them. Yet they're supposed to be able to go to school via online and be educated like we're not living in craziness right now. How ridiculously unfair.


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Downsize school and teach only the essentials. This would drop school hours down to maybe 4 hours or so. If you're a extracurricular teacher or something sorry, but you're fucked.

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Can't wait for schools to reopen, literally been having to pay somebody to look after my crushes kid

The things we do for love, lol

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they already do. with their phones. with their computers. with their television

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BlockAddition posted...

Can't wait for schools to reopen, literally been having to pay somebody to look after my crushes kid

The things we do for love, lol

^^^
Parents are dying to be away from their spawns and make them the teacher's problem for 8 hours a day, hence the willingness to stick their kids in front if a damaging screen for 8 hours.


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