MONTICELLO – In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of school buildings giving way to homebound distance learning, long-time educator and Monticello School Board President Lori Orestano James said in the long run, that education model will not work.
Governor Cuomo has suggested that because of the need to maintain social distancing, the current classroom model may not work in the future.
But James, Thursday, disputed claims that tele-education is the wave of the future.
“We have heard the governor say the Gates Foundation is going to come in and rescue the world and tele-education is the new wave. Well, I am here to tell you tele-education is not the new wave. Tele-education is tool to help us in certain fashion,” she said. James said that mode could be used if a student is sick at home or if a teacher is not well but wants to communicate with the class.
Croton Harmen school teacher John Bohanwic, who spoke during an online forum conduced by Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney on Thursday, said students need the human interaction with their teachers and classmates.
