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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-teaching dept.

With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.

Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:02PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:02PM (#971169) Homepage Journal

    Gotta learn to walk before you can run, ari. They ain't getting through Plato if they can't get through a modern novel in their own language.

    My ancestral language? Perl 4? If you're asking about Chickasaw, why would I bother learning that? So I can talk to the few dozen people on the planet who speak it when every last one of them also speak English? Pass.

    Languages are tools. I like like tools and will occasionally collect a completely useless one just for the novelty but the Chickasaw language isn't even useful for reading ancient writings in their native tongue because there are none to read. It was a spoken-only language until the 20th century.

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