Online Classes

This week, my school and the others in our county began online school. Ever since they closed school, we have been wondering how that would work. Now we know... and it is kind of underwhelming.

Before they closed schools, but we knew it was coming, speculation ran rampant through the students at my school. People thought there would be no online school, that we would meet virtually for 7 hours every day, and everything in between. Most everyone agreed that it would be harder than normal, due to the immediate difficulties presented by distance learning. What if you had poor internet connection? What if your teacher did? Or your chromebook broke midway through? How would the schedule work? How would new material be presented? Needless to say, no one had any idea.

Then schools closed, and everyone speculated even more. It didn't help that they closed schools and gave everyone absolutely no information about how we would proceed. In my opinion, this was a major mistake. The school board shouldn't have made such a major decision without thinking ahead. My mom is a teacher, and she knew just as much as we did. If they had provided at least a little direction as to what we should do until they reached a decision on distance learning, it would've removed a lot of the uncertainty at the time.

It didn't get better when Governor Northam decided to be radical and close schools for the year. In my opinion, he made an uninformed, rash decision. Although there was no question that it should've been considered, it wasn't necessary to make that decision at this point, when we are still figuring out how to proceed. There was no shortage of time, and while it was clear that we wouldn't be able to return to school anytime soon, we didn't know what the situation would be by May... so we didn't need to close through then.

Now we know that online school is just 30 minutes of work in each class. However, not all teachers are going about it the same way. Some teachers just gave a question or too, and some gave us four pages of stuff. This disorganization doesn't help very much, so I bet that the schedule for work will become much more structured. How will that happen? We don't know. All we know is that until we know more we don't know anything. Nonsensical, right? Welcome to my world.

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