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[quote=Anonymous]Our school district of about 50,000 kids had their entire system crash during the summer. Parents weren't allowed to enroll in person either due to safety reasons. When the system was back up, a lot of the links were dead links and people just gave up because trying to reach tech support could take hours. In the 2 weeks we have been DL, 4 days have been missed due to neighborhood power outages (there's constant work being done on power lines due to old trees), zoom outages, slow internet from inside the school buildings, etc. Distance learning doesn't work because technology hasn't caught up yet to make it work.

The district is now sending out notices begging people to enroll because classes that had 25 kids in them normally now only have 14 and are dwindling by the day as parents find alternate arrangements for their kids in wealthy districts. In poor districts, many of the parents have just given up. The district won't release any numbers in terms of attendance. We transferred to a private school 2 days into DL and haven't logged onto a single zoom session and our public school teacher marks my kid present if I send one photo of work he's done during the day. They just released alternate schedules for K-2 cutting the school day by 1 hour and introducing more 15 minute breaks (youtube videos). It's just a giant mess. But they're playing it up on social media like "great success! DL is going sooo well!"[/quote]

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