TIME is a funny thing. Walked past here on Friday and hardly any of the white flowers had emerged. 72 hours later after a yucky cold, dark and damp weekend – any hey presto it’s a sea of white.
I remember someone very clever saying that TIME operates at different rates for different people. Thinking about it – that clever person might have been Dr Who. When I was a kid I loved Dr Who. I so wanted to be a Timelord. As a prize for winning a football tournament school arranged a trip to the last day of a Dr Who exhibition. I was super excited. On the way our bus broke down. It took them hours to fix it. Finally we arrived at the exhibition only to find it had closed 5 minutes earlier. How on earth can you miss an exhibition about a time traveller – just doesn’t seem right.
TIME definitely operates at different rates for some of our son’s school teachers. Quite a few of the online classes require the student to read an article or a section of a text book. The amount of reading has definitely increased over the last few school days. The number of follow up tasks has also increased. Strangely the TIME allowed has stayed the same. Exactly where does this approach leave the dyslexic student. I know teachers are super busy but maybe one of them might have asked son how he is coping with reading the course material. They seem much quicker to spot his spelling mistakes. Much better use of TIME.
TIME is also hard to define. School have now rolled out a national learning app primarily aimed at those students who struggle with English comprehension and grammar. Interestingly an app with a rating of 1 out 5 from users (lucky to get 1 by all accounts). Son has been set a weekly app study time of 50 minutes. The teacher will be checking that each student has achieved the weekly minimum study time. Punishments for underachieving. What they don’t mention is that the app uses a lot of videos and narratives. Unfortunately these do not count against the learning time but need to be completed before you can get to the student work areas. When it crashes (and it crashes more times than me on a diet) all learning time is lost and you need to start at the beginning of the section again. So far son has been on the app for just under 3 hours. He’s watched endless boring videos and robotic narratives. He’s still to learn anything new. AND he’s only clocked 20 minutes actual study time.
“Dad what is the point of this. I’m bored out of my mind. As you would say, it’s a pile of pants. It’s a complete waste of my time, your time, the teachers time and a waste of bandwidth.”
I fed this back to school with a few of my own rather barbed comments. The school’s response was well we have sent a teacher to be trained in its use, that’s valuable school TIME so we need to keep using it.
Clearly I was wasting my TIME arguing.
God’s sake… In the midst of this? They are going to dish out punishments? What planet are these people on??? What one has this become that this going on?
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It’s crazy. We need to make them smile. But even now it’s all about government targets.
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Well you know what??? if that is really the case this cannae be that serious can it??? I mean we know it is but come on. We don’t have the ventilators so you might die but just make sure you could pass that test first.. It’s like these fecking pests right now who keep facebook click messaging everyone with some keech about gargling, or what you mean to them when they have no contact with you the rest of the year. And no idea where your life might be right now.
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I’m waiting for the chief medical officer to tell us the cure is either chocolate, wine or crisps.
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An ‘expert’ like that, no-one is asking the relevant questions of, is sure to know..
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I’m going to accidentally delete the app soon.
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alas. What an awful power cut to your ares… If that is what education has come to then time to sign out. .
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It could well be.
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How frustrating! You could, no doubt, do a better job of preparing a lesson plan for your son.
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We may we’ll find out.
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Uggh! That school is so frustrating! I’m sorry – that really stinks! The flowers are pretty though. I am excited to see our trees bloom!
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They are beautiful. School even now is sticking to government targets. Let the kids have some fun, they need it.
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Time … never enough but than there is too much time that leaves the mind thinking too much. The flowers are beautiful. enjoy.
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They so are.
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😏
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Older daughter has to do the same thing to keep up with her “continued education” hours for her nursing certification. Crashing videos and mindless babble… I wonder if it’s the same company???🤔😂💌
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Probably. It’s the biggest pile of pants I’ve seen from an app in years. x
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These people are dummies. And I’m being nice.
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Ok, that’s enough. You need to formally take him out of school before I explode. Really.
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Waiting for council to come back about his Education Plan and what happens with homeschooling
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Time really IS a funny thing. Bloom time has been stumping me lately. Everything in our yard is blooming behind everything in our close neighbors yards. I don’t understand this. Is there an odd weather triangle in our yard? Has time slowed down in our garden, or are the flowers having a bed protest? 😆 Your Son would like that one. Lol. I think my brain is picking up again. I still can’t remember anything about the toy story movies, though.
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Pleased things are starting to pick up a little. Our plants are all over the place.
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OMG, I so hear you! This is more like chicanery!
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It really is.
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Looks like you definitely need that TIME travelling house …
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Definitely needed. Still waiting for my Dr Who exhibition….
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You could time travel right back there, this time no bus needed, front of the queue as the doors open!
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Would make me so happy.
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There must be a Dr Who exhibition somewhere .. I’m going to keep a look out when things are back on again!!
It’s nice thinking about moments you’d travel back to. I just have to be careful I don’t stay there in my mind! X
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I’m guessing that it wouldn’t be the greatest exhibition. Maybe 30 minutes should do x
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Prob not.
You could time travel off somewhere else then …
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I would settle for 30 mins on each time stop.
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I would too.
We should plan what our day would look like …
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Would be fun
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Let’s do it!!
It’ll take me a while to do but I’m going to have fun and maybe change a few things on my journey! Like Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure
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I like the sound of that. I suspect I don’t need to act much to be Ted….
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Ted was my favourite 😊
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I need to watch it again.
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I had exactly that thought! I was trying to remember the things they kept saying.
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The worry is that my dress sense is probably not a bad match with the, still….
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Interesting …
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🙏
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Now that I’d like to see ….
choice of outfit for the day x
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One day… x
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How are you and your son doing? Coping ok as this goes on? X
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It just feels like an unsettling dream. It’s so tough for kids.Hope you are good. x
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I’m doing ok. Working although supposed to be a day off. I’m finishing now and beginning the exciting task of cleaning bathroom and toilets. Oh the joy x
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That’s my afternoon job. Trying to clean with hardly any cleaning items left….. x
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I failed … I got distracted with work, then had to get essentials food wise and then I took a walk for fresh air. Now I can’t be bothered to clean or even move. So I’m drinking alcohol free wine and eating peanuts. Living life in the fast lane! X
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That sounds like a plan. I think you’ve earned that. x
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😊
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Thank you x
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Gahhhh!!
Is the study time interactive or can it be started and abandoned? I used to do that with long annual training for work… launch it and leave.
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No tried it but if you don’t keep moving the mouse it crashes.
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GAAHHHHHH!!
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🙏
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🤦♀️
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Beating your head against a wall…
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Yes school has that effect on me.
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It does sound like the school is more concerned with tracking time spent than with whether anyone is actually achieving anything. It’s bizarre.
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It’s all about targets.
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It’s not even useful targets though, is it. They’re just measuring what can be easily measured regardless of whether it has any value.
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Then the government stands up and says everything is great because these really importantly targets have been hit…..
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Because being able to say that targets have been is hit is the most important thing
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It is to our leaders and the likes of Murdock.
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If you ask me its a load of well filled pants
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Big pants…
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Thankfully the schools here have tossed the mandatory testing out the window for the foreseeable future. Just DO something! Sounds like YOUR school is trying to put square pegs in round holes.
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It sounds like the usual tests start in a few weeks. Just they will be online tests.
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Thank you
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I have finally heard the educational equivalent of “No, we can’t go back to the old operating system. We know it worked better, but the company spent a lot of money upgrading to this one.” Very depressing
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It shows the mess the government has made of education
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