In Plymouth, this is the second week of school and the last week that Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gary Maestas will lead a school district of seven thousand three hundred students. The great majority of those students will learn under the hybrid model, the others will be schooled under a totally remote learning plan.
WATD’’s Bobbi Clark talked with Dr. Maestas about his thoughts on how these new teaching models will affect both the teachers and the students:
This is a whole new world for teachers…
“People didn’t get into education to teach with computers. Teachers every day, they absolutely love seeing the expression on kids faces, if they’re getting it, if they’re not getting it—building a relationship. And I think that has been the hardest thing, for our teachers, wholesale, to actually grapple with and disappointing.”
And how about the kids?
“I found that kids are experiencing more and more anxiety, more and more socially emotional issues? because their inability to interact, their inability to be with other people and my fear is the longer that this goes on the more and more people are going to be more comfortable being away than being together. Our hope is that we can ,in the next year, hopefully that we can start seeing this will change.”
Dr. Maestas last day as Superintendent is Friday.
