also, shabbling together school online over ~3 months isn’t exactly… smooth to say the least. Teachers can’t pause a YouTube video without hunting for the triangle in the corner, much less operate a computer long enough to share and control a zoom call of 30 kids.
I literally got a daily 0 for participation in a class where I clicked the “join call” button and was met with like 4 other kids, no teacher. For some reason there was a bug where there were just 2 different calls it would connect you to at random and all the teachers assumed it was kids being lazy and wouldn’t listen to parents.
Also the teachers had no idea what they were teaching either, they spent all the time learning how to ‘recover the google when they clicked the minus button’ so they couldn’t learn about the English lesson.
After a month I just switched to my states online classes instead of my highschool pitiful attempts. It went well for the rest of the year. Pretty easy because when you had to do phone calls the teachers were so overworked they’d like literally anything. For my physical education class I submitted a like 30min time for a mile, the teacher didn’t say anything. Took an online class that wasn’t offered at my school this year, it was definitely harder, but still pretty easy.
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yup, hence why it impacted who I mentioned: low income, rural and people of color (who get bad Internet due to racial redlining). Good point regarding changed attitudes of sick days, though.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Stay home if you’re sick!