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Agreed, the schools were not well-prepared for this style of learning and so it has not been particularly effective. We still participate with our kids' classes and teachers, but we rely on Khan Academy, augmented by Adventure Academy, among other things. Even so, we are not professional teachers, so I look forward to them returning to class next year.

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I agree that the lesson learned here is that emergency remote learning did not work. No one was prepared for it, teachers did not have training or materials needed, students were not expecting it, it was a mess. But that doesn't mean it can't work, just that it didn't work in this emergency situation.

To some extent I agree. But some districts/schools seemed to really have thought through how to deal with this quickly.

Our child's district did a horrible job, from our viewpoint and from the few other parents I've talked to in the same district (public).

Up the road is a private school that I hear from their parents did a fantastic job. As well as another parent in a district (public) further from us.

Edit: I'm curious to see how this affects the online schools (especially high school and below).

I don't always agree with him, but our district superintendent had remarkable foresight to make a large purchase of mobile hotspots, recognizing that they would be necessary in a remote learning environment, especially as we are not a wealthy community and have many kids without technology access at home. We have fared much better than the horror stories I've heard around the country. As others have pointed out in this thread - parents who have been able to augment with existing online sources have come out of this better as even the most well-intentioned districts just haven't had the years of preparing for online learning like an education.com, a Khan Academy, etc.

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