My wife is a teacher in Anaheim California.
She is an honorable woman who always attempts to educate children to the best of her abilities and has been, up to this point, highly successful in that endeavor.
No more. These school districts were not ready (and should have been) for remote learning. Their IT staff has not figured out how to use available technology and their curriculum staff does not know how to use the technology coupled with a sane process in order to teach kids.
Yesterday she got one hour of instruction in during the day while dealing with all the technical issues of the children in her class, as well as, the problem of the system crashing to its knees first thing in the morning.
The Good News you may ask is that since all of the parents are at home, this is not going to last too long since they will notice real quick how little educating is going on and how much time is wasted on technology and an ill-designed process. They will notice that their kids are not learning anything and will start screaming.
I’ve been in the IT industry for 25 years. In my experience the single most incompetent IT Departments are in School Districts.
Bar none.
And the outright corruption in the E-Rate program is mind boggling.
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Remote learning needs the parents cooperation and assistance, this will fall short. This is an excuse to keep the teachers out and paid, parents at home and not working because of it and some teachers concentrating on thier new career as a rioter protester
IOW, gotta get those kids back in pubic daycare so the parents can sleep all day. It’s not like many parents ever checked before if their kids bothered to turn in homework. Those same parents can’t be bothered to see if their kids logged into school that day.