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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yep, I know a family that moved during covid and couldn't get their acts together to enroll their kid in school until October--they didn't have the right proof of residency, couldn't fill out forms, don't have a printer, etc. And then they didn't have internet and since they owed comcast money from their old place they didn't qualify for low cost. And then when the school helped them with a hotspot and a laptop the mom still can't get herself up in the morning to help the kid log in, let alone any actual help with the subject matter. Poverty, mental illness, learning disabilities, and a lot more going on...and I think there are kids in a lot worse situations than this. Schools are going to have to do a lot of remediation. [/quote]

All of this.

I work with a high SES population and can report that childcare and mental health are a huge barrier to getting kids online and keeping them there. I see parents working full time who have left their ADHD elementary school-aged children to log on by themselves. Those kids never arrive on time, and sometimes they don’t show up at all. It’s the equivalent of walking into a child’s bedroom at 6:30 a.m., saying “Don’t miss the bus,” and then deciding that’s all you need to do to get your kid to school on time. I also see a lot of kids who are “present” online but not mentally present. They turn off their cameras to game, they take three breaks per class period, and/or they wander off for ten minutes at a time. No teacher can reach through the screen and bring them back. If even 10 percent of the students do this each class period, a teacher has a dozen follow-up communications that should be made to families before the end of the day. Unfortunately a lot of those families ignore communication from school (if they haven’t outright blocked school email addresses and phone numbers).[/quote]

The bus analogy is perfect. And it’s really hard for even stay at home parents to keep track of what the kids are supposed to be doing. Several times I saw my son goofing off and I accused him of skipping class, but no, he really did have a break. How am I supposed to know unless I listen to everything the teacher says? [/quote]

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