Who could have possibly seen this coming?

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 08/25/2020 at 11:40 • Filed to: School boards be dumb

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While my district is teaching remotely, they are requiring us to do it from campus. Which means district wide we share one internet connection.

Three times during training last week, it went down district wide. Not halfway through day two of instruction, boom. I just lost half a class period. Luckily I have my GoPro to film some content with, or I could do literally no work now.

This is so stupid.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 11:51

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This is so stupid.

This s eems to be a recurring theme lately

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 11:51

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I’m sorry to hear you’re having issues. That sucks.  We had a couple of hiccups the first two days (last Th Fr), but they seem to be ironed out today. No dropped meetings, no connectivity issues.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 11:55

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One of the teachers my son had last year was extremely technology challenged, we learned she wants to be a 100% online teacher. There were some chuckles and face palms in my house. This person couldn’t even get a projector to work correctly let alone manage 20 students with online instruction. The issues being faced by educators and students this fall are endless...

fintail > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 11:59

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School administrators didn’t plan things properly? Color me amazed, as they usually have such a great record of respecting both teachers and students .

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 12:13

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On the other hand, streaming from home as I am doing right now makes one susceptible to the vagaries of one’s home internet. I had a couple of glitches during the last hour. Fingers crossed for the next one.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 08/25/2020 at 12:14

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Only lately?

jminer > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 12:18

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The making you teach from school definitely feels like because the administration doesn’t trust teachers which is extremely shitty.

On the other hand it would make sense to have it as an option for teachers who either don’t have the equipment or space needed at home to teach from school.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > BaconSandwich is tasty. 08/25/2020 at 12:23

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.... e specially lately

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 12:56

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functionoverfashion > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 13:31

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 13:40

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My district’s genius IT department decided that instead of Windows laptops (Lenovo Yogas with SSDs and touch screens and the ability to fold back like a tablet), they’d issue us all Chromebooks. Fail. So they’re scrambling to buy laptops.

I’ll be interested to see how long it takes your district management to wither on this one.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > functionoverfashion 08/25/2020 at 13:41

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 08/25/2020 at 13:41

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Actually, in my situation, it’s been Admin who’s had my back while my union leaves me dangling in the breeze.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer 08/25/2020 at 13:42

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Yes, all of that, entirely.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Chariotoflove 08/25/2020 at 13:42

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My Comcast cable internet has proven robust and more than adequate and I am frankly impressed and genuinely grateful.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 13:47

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Better than Raid shadow legends!

someassemblyrequired > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 13:51

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COTD

Chariotoflove > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 13:55

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We are on ATT U-verse, our only option. Mostly it’s okay, but it’s being taxed pretty heavily these days. We are in an older part of the city. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 08/25/2020 at 13:58

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I actually got NordVPN and it’s great.  lol

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 14:01

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I use a VPN called Hola and I kinda hate it. Th e UI sucks.

Would you recomm end Nord over others?

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 15:34

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I just got sent home with a symptom (diarrhea ). When I got home, my laptop wouldn’t boot up. It eventually did, after about 15 attempts.  My IT department had my laptop almost all week last week to fix this problem.

shop-teacher > fintail 08/25/2020 at 15:35

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Yeah, news at 11 I guess!

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 08/25/2020 at 15:35

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Indeed.  Especially lately.

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 15:35

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LOL!

Ugh. No thanks!

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 08/25/2020 at 15:36

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It does, but wouldn’t it be better to have a few teachers have problems spread accross the district, rather than ALL of them?

shop-teacher > jminer 08/25/2020 at 15:37

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Yes and yes.

shop-teacher > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/25/2020 at 15:37

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True story.

shop-teacher > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/25/2020 at 15:37

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True story.

vdubyajohn > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 15:39

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Don’t freak out over it, that’s a symptom of lots of other things too.
Be well

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 08/25/2020 at 15:57

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Yeah! the UI is stupid easy. I’m on my work PC, otherwise would send a screenshot.

You basically just get a world map and click which country you want.

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 16:04

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I am surprised they aren’t teaming up to make your life interesting.

My sister is a special ed teacher - school starts next week, I think, and they still don’t have a plan.

shop-teacher > vdubyajohn 08/25/2020 at 16:05

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I’m not freaked out at all, but thank you. I feel fine, I’m just following the protocol and making sure everything is square.

I’m pretty ticked off about the laptop though!

MUSASHI66 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/25/2020 at 16:29

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There should be no tech challenged teachers in 2020. Alas, as someone who works in IT for an university and was working IT in a school district before, I know this is not based in reality.

But  for reals - computers have been a mainstream thing for 20 years - unless you’re 50+, no excuse to suck at using them.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 16:36

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If it’s all square, I don’t think it’s diarrhea. ;)

A little covid-19 humor for your day.

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 08/25/2020 at 16:43

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Oh sure, in trying to insure you don’t have one problem, you open yourself up to another. Plenty of things to go wrong when you put all your eggs in one basket.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 08/25/2020 at 16:52

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My wife is a SPED para educator. SPED is a fail in most cases. Teachers’ jobs are impossible, administration is inept and powerless parents go on power trips and ordinary families who need services get few or none because all resources are focused upon litigious a$$hole parents. I. Could. Not. Do. It.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > MUSASHI66 08/25/2020 at 16:54

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This person is in their 30's. I’m confused how they graduated from college. Kind of like the person who drives their car until the gas light comes on and wonders why they keep running out of gas.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 20:49

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What do YOU think of egg fried rice...

shop-teacher > haveacarortwoorthree2 08/25/2020 at 21:31

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LOL!

MUSASHI66 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/25/2020 at 22:52

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Ouch... and they are teaching your young ones. 

vdubyajohn > haveacarortwoorthree2 08/26/2020 at 09:13

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ouch!

shop-teacher > vdubyajohn 08/26/2020 at 09:20

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Fun fact: wombat poop is square.  Well, cubed.  I learned that from some nature book I was reading to my kids.

vdubyajohn > shop-teacher 08/26/2020 at 18:52

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I hope that book didn’t get into too much detail about how they kill their victims...lol

shop-teacher > vdubyajohn 08/26/2020 at 18:53

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Nope :)

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > MUSASHI66 08/27/2020 at 12:14

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They’ve really been mainstream for 25+ years. Even in my ghetto school in Los Angeles there were PCs accessible to students all the way back in 1987. Teachers had them at least a couple years before that. In 1986, I was learning typing on a terminal system. By 1991, there were PCs in every classroom. 1986 is almost 35 years ago; if you can’t figure out how to use a computer in that time , you likely never will, but you’re also probably at least 60 years old if you were teaching that long ago.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > MUSASHI66 08/27/2020 at 12:18

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They’ve really been mainstream for 25+ years. Even in my ghetto school in Los Angeles there were PCs accessible to students all the way back in 1987. Teachers had them at least a couple years before that. In 1986, I was learning typing on a terminal system. By 1991, there were PCs in every classroom. 1986 is almost 35 years ago; if you can’t figure out how to use a computer in that time, you likely never will, but you’re also probably at least 60 years old if you were teaching that long ago.

They were trickling down to poor people 20 years ago and were nearly ubiquitous among families with children by about 2005 in most of the US. The fact that this virus exposed that any children didn’t have at least a working laptop was shocking (you could probably supply every middle class and below child in this country with a computer just with waste computers from major corporations, considering the literal pallet loads of recent computers I’ve seen shipped off for recycling just from the lab I work in ).

MUSASHI66 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 08/27/2020 at 13:31

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I’d say Windows 95, maybe Windows NT was what made them mainstream. Lots of people worked on mainframes, but computers in homes really made the difference. So, 25 years would be a good number as W95 was released in 1995.

Anything before that was too niche. 

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > MUSASHI66 08/27/2020 at 15:20

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Schools had them, so they weren’t that niche. Only the upper middle class had them in their homes, but they weren’t out of reach of schools. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was shot in 1985 and PCs were treated as relatively commonplace items by that time (as Ferris, someone that wasn’t a nerd, was familiar enough with them to use one, and the writer was familiar enough with them to include it as a plot element ).

The history of microcomputers is much longer than you probably realize. I grew up very poor, but by 1986 my family owned a computer that was given to us by one of my dad’s friends that worked as a software developer. He had numerous computers by that time... Paul Allen and Bill Gates were developing software in high school on school computers by 1970 .

MUSASHI66 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 08/27/2020 at 15:41

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I had a computer in 1987. I guess we have a different idea what makes computers ubiquitous but I think we agree on the dates.