There were 2 questions being posed by the school to get an early sense of whether we would like to place our kid in the same online school or perhaps choose a physical school to attend to. They were also assessing and getting feedback of what they can possibly improve with the online schooling which had been done as a pilot project and a response of the Covid-19 situation.
The following are also what I sent to St. Isidore School were my kids had been taking online Schooling during this Covid-19 pandemic.
1. What have you/your child enjoyed about St. Isidore Online School?
Online Schooling allowed my kids to have more relaxed atmosphere, eg. not waking up very early and rushing to school. This is also the same with us parents since it took away from us the need of driving them to school and picking them up from school. Although, the challenge is to be able to assist them closely especially on technical stuff and comprehension element of classwork most especially, that they only have limited time with their teachers via classes and Student/Teacher connect.
2. What suggestions/ideas do you have for us to consider when planning for the 2021-2022 school year at St. Isidore?
1. The only downside with the online schooling is that the interaction between the students had been limited. I have suggested this to one of the teachers that perhaps, there should be a time allocated for the students to have at least interaction and fun with them. If there is what we call Parent/Teacher connect, or Student/Teacher Connect, there should also be Student/Student Connect.
2. Being Musically minded, my kids had missed the opportunity to exhibit their musical talents since there is no more Talent Show conducted by the School. Our Lady of Grace before the end of School year last year, when pandemic had hit already, resorted to having the kids record their performances over flipgrid and the Music teacher collated all entries and made a single video presentation which had been shown to all as called "OLG Talent Show" in a specified date and time. The only concern I guess, is that the school (St. Isidore) still has a limited number of teachers handling the classes and have nobody having the expertise to do such thing. Maybe the school can start reaching out to gifted parents as well to volunteer.
3. Master Classes have been an awesome add-on to the learning of the students. I just however would like to point out about Finance, Investing and Trading. This particular subject had not really been valued that much to parents and to teachers themselves. My kids, opted out when they saw this, because based on what they experienced previously is that they only learn how to save and not really the real aspects of trading, which they learned personally from me. We ought to raise our kids with the proper knowledge and experience to be able to handle well their own finances someday. But unless, we do this well, they will end just the same with the older generation relying heavily on working to make money alone instead of letting their money work hard for them. Schools should start assigning key individuals who can really execute this training to kids based on the experience and knowledge they had gained combining technical, fundamental and psychological aspects of Stock trading. One of the key thing here is to start creating some kind of curriculum that will address this thing just like any other art subjects. Trading is also an Art, Science and a Psychological subject that when taught well to kids at an early age, it will equip them with superior ability to be able to understand well the market technically and fundamentally, read the market, act with cunning discipline as a business mogul, decide intellectually without sense of fear or greed on a given stock, commodity or ticker symbol. This will make them real masters in making their money to become Bishops, Queens, Horses, and Towers to follow a winning strategy to multiply their money even while they are sleeping or not working. If only the kids will be ushered to learn this thing in a fun way, like playing a chess game, then we can raise a lot of Stock Trading Masters, Savvy Businessmen and women, Disciplined Wizards and Wise Investors.
