Two years ago I posted for the first time since the shutdown: Where Do We Stand Now? My concern was for the dumbing-down of expectations for graduation and the influx of dysfunctional online learning systems. I am thrilled, however, by the continuance of fundamental teaching and learning despite the challenges.
As for the COVID regime and our institutional responses to it, I was professionally agnostic and personally antagonistic. I made no recommendations to parents on responses one way or another. My only concern was that while working remotely students maintain academic rigor, practice, and engagement.
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I’ve kept quiet on the School4Schools.com blog over the past couple years. I think I’ve been overwhelmed by so much to discuss and so little clarity on any of it.
Back in 2019 I was gearing up our SAT prep resources, as I was sick of seeing kids punished by lack of preparation or poor or very expensive guidance from tutoring centers and private tutors. Besides, the SAT verbal offers an excellent opportunity to teach kids grammar, which has mostly gone missing in their K-12 years and is missing altogether in college. (See my SAT, grammar, and other resources on the School4Schools.wiki)
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