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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They've been virtual for the whole year and the internet has only collapsed once I think, at the beginning of the year. So why would it start now?[/quote]
Because some schools will now have 200+ people connected to the school wifi (as opposed to connecting from home).  I think its very likely the routers at school will go down, especially if they have the hybrid kids mostly doing things on their ipad still.  [/quote]

They won’t be on iPad as much at school. Mostly for specials. [/quote]

That is not what we have been told. Maybe you’re talking about one of the younger grades? But kids 3rd and up are concurrent will be on the iPad quite a bit. The teacher will be rotating between small groups so while the teachers with the small group, on the iPad the kids will have to be doing independent work on the iPad. [/quote]

It will likely vary by grade level. Maybe that’s why they split the grades this way? To not overload system as much. [/quote]

In classes where it's concurrent, the kids even in the classroom may be streaming on MS Teams so that all the kids in the class can see each other.  That's a few hundred kids and teachers per day in each building all using a ton of bandwidth all at once.  My 5th grader's math class breaks into multiple channels with two or three teachers and the kids are from at least two homerooms, so even in-person kids will be in different rooms and will all need to be on MS Teams to participate.

This isn't the same as the service provider issue on the first day of school, it's whether APS has sufficient infrastructure in each building.  Think about the difference in your household when it's one person on a device versus each person running multiple devices at once.  I know we had to boost our router once the pandemic hit and we were all working and going to school from home.
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