Hacker News Reader

For many schools, zoom is the backup plan. Covid caused the in-person outage.

This isn't their area of expertise, and asking teachers to migrate to the backup and inform and assist their students to get online during an outage of unknown length isn't reasonable.

Snow days in 2020 will be replaced with Zoom Outage days.

View on HN

If Zoom had an outage in early april, that would be legitimate. However it's been 5 months since schools first closed, and we've known for most of that time that this would be a long term issue. Do you really want the person who can't figure out two meeting programs over the course of several months to be responsible for your kid's education?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com