This article has some nice descriptions of how some students had better in-person experiences at school, and argues that therefore "online learning cheats poor students". I feel it is incumbent on me to state the obvious: it is not online learning that cheats poor students, it is being poor that cheats poor students. Even if there is some difference in their learning experience with and without online learning, the overall defining fact informing both their education and their life in general is the fact that they are poor. Stories like this may offer a salve to those who don't really want to offer the poor any support, but they don't legitimize doing nothing. The students without computers as described in this story should be given computers (and much more besides). There are really no excuses (and this story doesn't provide one). Via Anchorage Daily News.
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