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

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10. This High School

teacher is hating life now. I'm working harder and don't see the results of eLearning with my kids. I teach in a Title 1 school and about 35% of my kids have been participating in eLearning for the past month. The rest of the kids have fallen into oblivion. Many kids see it as an extended Spring Break. Then there are the tech issues. I am not good at tech, fortunately my college math geek is a phone call away and fixes my tech issues pretty quickly. My school handed out over 700 laptops and 1000+ hot spots so some of our kids could have 1 laptop per family with internet connectivity.That's about half our school needing help, then there are the kids who have a computer/internet and parents out of work and unable to pay cable/cell phone bill etc...At least I was smart enough to haul home most of my American History 1 & 2 lesson plan folders, in other words, two drawers worth of filing cabinet full of lesson plans. At home I have to pdf most of it, add to Haiku or PowerSchool Learning page, update the page daily, grade their assignments. And try to play in the tech world instead of discussions etc....So COVID-19 is making me play in the tech world and this old dinosaur hates it. But I am evolving so I guess I will survive it. I do miss the kids and the energy.