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   templo SUD said, 7 months ago

   Oh, I don’t know. For sure ’twasn’t your grandmother Evie or Aunt Joan.
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   somebodyshort said, 7 months ago

   Most schools now asign each student an e-mail address..
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

   Disappointing but probably typical anti learning USA children.
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   frumdebang said, 7 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   Just what have you been smoking? Nobel Prizes by country:
   #1: United States – 337
   #2: United Kingdom – 116
   #3: Germany – 102
   No other countries in triple digits.
   Pretty good for “anti learning USA children.”
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   capnLaz said, 7 months ago

   Those Nobel winners all learned before the internet. See how many Nobels we get in forty years.
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   frumdebang said, 7 months ago

   @capnLaz

   124, including the Nobel Prize for Graphic Literature (Matthew Inman, “The Oatmeal”, 2033).
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   hildigunnur said, 7 months ago

   are you joking? (no never, a comic strip joking?) What would you say if your job would expect you to do your work at home when you’re sick? Schools shouldn’t be any different!
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   paha_siga said, 7 months ago

   Our school doesn’t mail homework – it is in that internet to see whenever I want to log in (so I could check it if my child told me he has no homework to do).
   Still, I would not make bedridden lousy-feeling red-nosed children to do homework – I dump all they missed on mine when they are out-of-bed-but-not-yet-fit-for-school kind.
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   Kab Buch said, 7 months ago

   When my kids went to school when sick we did not then receive homework on Internet, but then they were not sick that often. Most teachers do not children in class sick.
   I survived day light savings time, we changed our clocks Saturday evening, went to bed early, and I slept somewhat through but woke up 5am.

   I’ve been taking on-line class for Medical Coding at my old age, one subject we have quiz for every chp, this way I have better idea good or bad we do. this one class open book repeat quiz if needed. I found a bad one when submitting. all answer wrong. I go according by book. including terms with quiz. I notified instructor by email then called instructor. Instead of fixing quiz removed same chap not on final test. I’m ahead of all.
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    YatInExile said, 7 months ago

    In my day, the teacher would phone my mom or send the homework assignments with a classmate who lived nearby. With current technology, only the communication options have changed.
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    ncalifgirl58 said, 7 months ago

    All I know is I’m feeling like the girls today. Ugh. Happy Sunday all.
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    scretwitch said, 7 months ago

    @hildigunnur

    I have worked from home when I was sick… of course I work for the government, so I guess that explains it.
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    Jeff0811 said, 7 months ago

    @capnLaz

    The internet has been around for at least 25-30 years, way back with Comp-u-Serve and Prodigy. That would make Nobel Prize winners in their 40’s or 50’s who have benefited from the internet.
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    Monkeyhead said, 7 months ago

    @hildigunnur

    Many people don’t have sick pay these days, companies do away with those types of benefits so people have to work sick. I have to go in, do my work and then can go home sick. That’s reality, being held responsible for your commitments. The sooner kids learn this the better workers they are as adults.
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    sjsczurek said, 7 months ago

    @Monkeyhead

    We need to restore such things as sick pay, or at least sick days, for people. Being sick is not to shirk one’s commitments. That, too, is reality. Another reality is that when people are sick they need to be excused and allowed to recuperate. Being forced to work when one is ill does not make them a better worker, and staying at home when one is ill does not make them a bad worker. That is the biggest reality here, and it must be recognized because it is true and right.
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