I have heard that a lot, the problem was they tried to just translate the classroom setting to online. It doesn’t work. What it did do was open a lot of parent’s eyes to the agenda tho. One of my friends told me that it made her realize how much time is wasted during the school day. The actual school work is probably no more than 2-3 hours.
There were plenty of online academies that have been doing it for decades and worked out the issues and kinks long ago. It’s too bad the public school didn’t do some research at least to see what works. Most are text based with supplemental videos.
Yes, It is/was a real mess, they had a “Login schedule” throughout the day, only way to meet this inflexible schedule for little ones was to quit your job and stay home with the kids. They actually didn’t even need teachers at all, some even made things worse. Should have just laid them all off.
The part that made us all mad, was the contract they made parents sign. We all had to agree not to “Eavesdrop” on the teacher/student video conferencing or the child would be expelled. They had absolutely no right to hide this from us, let alone in our own homes. And it showed they are trying to teach kids stuff they do not want parents to know about.