fwiw, our experience has been lackluster and frustrating. My child is in public elementary school, in the inclusive class (special ed and non special ed in same class). So there are 2 teachers and they split the subjects Language arts/Social studies, Math/Science, and then he has a few specials like STEM, Technology, Music once a week that each have a different teacher.
The biggest problem that we had last week was that each teacher, and sometime each subject had a different system to log into. It made getting everything setup a bit of a challenge and there was always confusion about where to go next when we transitioned to a new subject. My spouse has a degree in education, and I make my living heading up product and technology team and we found it challenging. I imagine that folks without those backgrounds are really struggling.
This week seems to have gotten better, and all the love in the world to the teachers who had their plans upended by this, but I am frustrated with the school/county administration for not having this more nailed down and standardized for kids who were out sick and having to use the systems outside of this quarantine.
In the UK we are just starting our first week of national school shutdown, and the transition is very abrupt and many schools poorly prepared. I have children in primary (U.S. grade K-5) and secondary (U.S. grade 6-10) and primary is barely functional. They have some basic content on their website but no equipment and no interaction between school and students so far. But secondary is far better - all students have iPads and online classrooms, curriculum based work set every day, teachers interacting regularly with students, study groups for the students, even time-based tests. Hopefully the primary schools can trim things around, since the schools seem unlikely to restart until after the summer break - 5 more months
The biggest problem that we had last week was that each teacher, and sometime each subject had a different system to log into. It made getting everything setup a bit of a challenge and there was always confusion about where to go next when we transitioned to a new subject. My spouse has a degree in education, and I make my living heading up product and technology team and we found it challenging. I imagine that folks without those backgrounds are really struggling.
This week seems to have gotten better, and all the love in the world to the teachers who had their plans upended by this, but I am frustrated with the school/county administration for not having this more nailed down and standardized for kids who were out sick and having to use the systems outside of this quarantine.