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I think it's a great idea that the delivery of the material is done by video, and then the engagement with it, the exercises etc., are done with a teacher.

That flipping strikes me as sensible.



Knowing that the vast majority of parents will not check or enforce school work at home, either because they don't care or can't (2 jobs etc) ...

You have to choose which one actually happens. That seems to me to be the lecture.

Additionally teachers are very opposed to doing extra work (this seems to be a Gen-Z thing: even with doctors you see this, there was an article about doctors refusing to do emergency rooms shifts during covid because they didn't want to pull more hours ...). So you'll need to get teachers that are willing to do a LOT of extra work (and compensated accordingly), and prevent people from sabotaging that system.

Either that or you could make schools pretty exclusive again. Which is what the default outcome will be if we don't act.


Gen-Z doctors during COVID did not exist. Only now are the very very first gen Z doctors coming into the workforce.


> there was an article about doctors refusing to do emergency rooms shifts during covid because they didn't want to pull more hours

This phenomenon did not involve Gen Z, it involved all generations, and was multifactorial in nature. It also gets complicated by health center where physicians and nurses can see inequities in how these +1 shifts and responsibilities emerge, get distributed, and get compensated.




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