Allow Lockwood Students a Full Time Option
Allow Lockwood Students a Full Time Option
The Issue
Lockwood School (SD26) high school and middle school students have received approximately 30 days of in person learning compared to their peers in SD2 at 92 days this school year. Lockwood elementary and primary students have had roughly 270 hours of in person learning compared to 540 hours for SD2.
We understand and respect the need for some students to have the right to virtual learning during this global pandemic. We applaud the school for making this an option to keep community members who need to take extra care for themselves or close family safe.
What we do not stand for anymore is the suffering of our children’s education without the numbers to back up such decisions.
We are asking for parents AND teaching staff to be allowed to choose between full time, in person learning as well as a virtual option.
Our numbers and exposures to Covid-19 come from the same data as SD2. Their decision to open full time was described as risky and we were told by our superintendent that he believed would cost them a shut down. It hasn’t to this point.
When concerns were brought to the board by parents about the lack of time spent learning at the November 10th meeting (link posted below), the chair of the SD26 school board said “maybe, in reality when your kids are at school all day long it only takes 10 minutes to get their work done and you’re just now seeing it because they are at home.” (1:18:00 mark)
We simply don’t buy this.
Lockwood School is full of amazing teachers and staff who deserve much more credit than providing 10 minutes of learning total in a full school day. And our children deserve to benefit from those teachers as much as SD2 and surrounding students.
PARENTS! Please sign and attend the next board meeting on February 9th @6pm.
The Issue
Lockwood School (SD26) high school and middle school students have received approximately 30 days of in person learning compared to their peers in SD2 at 92 days this school year. Lockwood elementary and primary students have had roughly 270 hours of in person learning compared to 540 hours for SD2.
We understand and respect the need for some students to have the right to virtual learning during this global pandemic. We applaud the school for making this an option to keep community members who need to take extra care for themselves or close family safe.
What we do not stand for anymore is the suffering of our children’s education without the numbers to back up such decisions.
We are asking for parents AND teaching staff to be allowed to choose between full time, in person learning as well as a virtual option.
Our numbers and exposures to Covid-19 come from the same data as SD2. Their decision to open full time was described as risky and we were told by our superintendent that he believed would cost them a shut down. It hasn’t to this point.
When concerns were brought to the board by parents about the lack of time spent learning at the November 10th meeting (link posted below), the chair of the SD26 school board said “maybe, in reality when your kids are at school all day long it only takes 10 minutes to get their work done and you’re just now seeing it because they are at home.” (1:18:00 mark)
We simply don’t buy this.
Lockwood School is full of amazing teachers and staff who deserve much more credit than providing 10 minutes of learning total in a full school day. And our children deserve to benefit from those teachers as much as SD2 and surrounding students.
PARENTS! Please sign and attend the next board meeting on February 9th @6pm.
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Petition created on January 15, 2021