Nearly in a single day, educating and learning moved from school rooms to on-line environments. School systems invested 1000’s of dollars in Chromebooks, Wi-Fi hotspots, and other technologies. I think the lessons we’ve discovered are that it’s good to have a backup system, if they’ll afford it. I was talking recently with folks in a district in New Hampshire where, due to all of the snow days they’ve within the wintertime, they’d already developed a backup online studying system.
There has already been an “overwhelming absentee rate” among teachers within the San Francisco Unified School district this week, the newspaper …