Pandemic could change public schools for decades to come, San Diego County official says

[Jake Stern]

5. As mentioned in another OP

Before I became a dad I was very much on the "Online learning coming whether we want it or not. Can't stop progress!" bandwagon.

Now that I have a 4 year old son who still doesn't fully get why he can only see his friends from school during his teacher's Tuesday live book reading on Zoom, I've come to realize the value of brick and mortar schooling.

If this offends the techies out there in DU Land, too damned bad: Zoom and FaceTime will NEVER replace seeing friends in person for the children. You can't play catch with FaceTime or hide and seek with Skype or tag through a website.

Even School of the Air in the Australian Outback arranges meetups for the kids.