Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited an elementary school in Virginia on Monday, May 3. Biden visited an elementary school in Virginia on Monday, May 3. They asked the school’s fifth-grade students, “How do you like your Internet class?” The answer he got was ……
According to FoxNews.com, Biden and his wife visited the elementary school in Yorktown, Va. on Monday. The school currently has classes four days a week – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – and no classes on Wednesdays so teachers can spend them cleaning the school.
When Biden asked the students, “How do you like Internet class?” The children gave a variety of answers. Some children replied, “It’s okay.” Some said, “If we’re too tired during class, we can take a nap during class.” Other children laughed and replied, “Sometimes when the teacher is busy with other things, you can eat and it’s nice.” Still other children thought about it and said, “If you don’t know the answer, you can pretend your microphone is broken.” And another child said, “I don’t like Internet classes; they are terrible.” Another child responded by saying, “There are always technical glitches in online classes, so it’s pretty hard, but the end result is okay. I would definitely prefer to be taught above.”
The teacher of the class who showed the Biden’s around also said she would prefer to lead face-to-face lessons.
She said, “The students in our class know that I love science class, so I always try to add a lot of hands-on activities to the class. Our students have a lot of those hands-on opportunities in class. Whereas in online classes, the kids don’t have that opportunity.”
The students in that class also showed the Biden’s the crafts they had made in science class.
That substitute teacher also described how their school’s back-to-school guidelines require students to keep a social distance from each other, wear masks during the school day, and install clear dividers for students’ desks, and that they also properly sanitize the students’ desks.
Biden then tweeted on his Twitter account, “Teachers are a special force for good in our country, and I am very fortunate to be married to one and to have been able to see first-hand how hard they work to educate students. Teachers have done far more than usual to help students get through the outbreak safely this year, so please thank them.”
Study finds online classes affect students’ academics
The study found that students in many U.S. states are falling behind academically because they had to take online classes due to last year’s Communist virus outbreak.
A study done last year by the Office of Research and Strategic Improvement for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia found that online classes led to a general decline in student academic performance in the county’s elementary and middle schools.
The study compared student performance in the first quarter of the 2020 to 2021 school year with the first quarter of the 2019 to 2020 school year and found that in the first quarter of the 2020 to 2021 school year, the number of students failing in both classes increased from 6 percent to 11 percent. The increase was 83 percent; more students with physical disabilities or non-native English speakers had failing grades.
And another CDC poll of parents of students showed that parents of children taking classes online said their children were worse off than students taking classes above on 11 of 17 indicators of stress and well-being.
The study’s authors wrote, “The findings suggest that online classes may pose more risk than above-board instruction in terms of mental health and emotional well-being for children and parents.”
The Biden administration has been criticized for consulting the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union in the United States, on its guidelines for resuming classes.
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