Reply To: academics

>> insisted that classroom lessons be streamed live.

One school here tried hybrid, with best intention, with teachers trying to pay attention to both class and remote and really losing it all. Sounds you are just passively watching, that makes sense.

>> Doors, classrooms –
have similar problems. We let them to misbehave (aka bribery), don’t want to be too strict under these conditions. This is tolerable given that spigot of bad middos coming from school is closed [ hope they aint reading!]

interesting re: BY, thanks. This is similar to Chabad Shluhim schools, I guess. When we were exploring online education pre-Corona, a Rav recommended it from seeing Shluhim kids at remote locations, who are well socialized online.

We are mostly using a state online school that is run by a company called Connexus (not available in NY, NJ, but is in many other states, call your legislator and fight unions to allow/expand in your state). Hard to beat the price, and spends serious resources, zero negative social effects. I think all Jewish schools should outsource secular studies to such schools (+ some mentoring). There are a couple of yeshivot that do this. for Jewish studies, there are bunch of home-schooler style shops, like Melamed Academy. Looking for something more exciting in a long term.