E-learning already has its own set of problems — a patchy internet connection makes everything even more frustrating.
For families in rural communities, online school is turning out to be much harder than it should be.for us,” Christen Shepherd said, with exasperation, on a phone call with HuffPost Canada. Over the course of the 20-minute conversation, her voice dipped in and out of clarity, the sound glitching and going dead every few words, because of poor cellular service.
“Almost immediately, I knew it was going to be an issue,” Shepherd said. Her husband is a scientist who has been, like many others, working from home, and lately he’s been required to sign onto a number of video chat meetings. “What we’re finding is the internet is crashing all of the time, and so when he needs to be online, everyone else has to come off. Otherwise, nothing works.”
“Their teachers have been really great, and allow students to text them whenever they have questions,” said Rafeek. “And it’s not even like they’ve been overloaded with work. ItOn top of that, her youngest son has social anxiety, and she worries that being away from his friends at school might trigger a regression.
But for Shepherd’s middle daughter, Samantha, who struggles to focus without an actual classroom to motivate her, things immediately became difficult. “I have to sit with her and read all of the assignments to her and explain questions when, typically, she would have someone at school to help her with that,” said Shepherd. “If I were working full time, it would be impossible.”
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