Remote Learning

The English language can be so confusing. So can Math but I know better than to try teaching that! Whose idea was it to create words that sound exactly alike, are spelled differently, and have nothing in common? Take for instance sense, cents, and scents. Or write and right, no and know…is there no end to this madness?

Online learning has many of us attempting to teach subjects we haven’t studied for what seems like an eternity. I, for one, haven’t conjugated verbs in years. It’s been a minute since I diagramed sentences or studied history. I’ll even go so far as to admit, when watching The Crown on Netflix, wondering, “Where was I when we studied this in school?”

Recently, I was trying to explain the Greatest Common Factor. What became painfully clear was the fact that the greatest common factor was that neither the student nor the teacher knew what that meant. Don’t even get me started on Science. The last time I saw the Periodic Table was on a pair of socks I gave my grandson for Christmas; he was thrilled. When I asked said grandson where the textbook was for a subject he was studying, I received a blank stare and the reply, “What’s a textbook?” Lord, help us all.

So, if you’re wondering what my word is, here you go…bamboozled…because it means perplexed and it includes the letters b-o-o-z-e. I might just have to take up drinking to get through this.

Who’s with me? Or is it whose?