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Speaker 1: An eighth grade student in New York City, has written

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Speaker 1: a op ed in The New York Times and I

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Speaker 1: cannot believe they ran. Thirteen year old very Neat Mints

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Speaker 1: says that she's learning more with distance learning like at home,

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Speaker 1: than she did when her school was open. Now. She

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Speaker 1: says that before the coronavirus lockdown, she had to put

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Speaker 1: up with other students talking out of turn every day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they destroyed classroom materials, openly disrespected to teachers. They blurted

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Speaker 1: out answers during tests. She says that other students regularly

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Speaker 1: pushed and kicked and hit each other, and that was

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Speaker 1: life in her middle school every single day. Now she

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Speaker 1: wrote about the problems was so called collaborative learning, which

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Speaker 1: she says accounts for eighty percent of classroom work in

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Speaker 1: her school. It's done in groups. Dedicated students have to

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Speaker 1: try to make the unmotivated kids finish assignments and behave

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Speaker 1: But distance learning has allowed ms Mints to take control

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Speaker 1: of her own studies. She can now focus on her

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Speaker 1: work and is not being held back by the loosers.

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Speaker 1: Miss Mints, I want to thank you. You have single

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Speaker 1: handedly explained why so many parents in New York and

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Speaker 1: in other Blue cities want school choice. They want to

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Speaker 1: say in where they send their kids to school, so

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Speaker 1: they won't have to put up with what You've been

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Speaker 1: forced to put up with every day until the coronavirus

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Speaker 1: saved you. How about that