NEW YORK (RPT) - After several confusing weeks, schools around the country are now decisively opening for in-person online remote instruction. “This has been a chaotic and confusing time for all of us, and it is important now for students, parents and teachers to have clarity about the way forward,” a school administrator told RPT. She continued, “That way forward is to have students and teachers back in the classroom, with all instruction happening online and remotely.”
Some parents have expressed concern about the schools’ plans. “I have no idea what the fuck is going on,” one disgruntled father of two elementary school children shared. “First they said they’re going back to the classroom, then they said they’re going online, and now they’re saying in-person online remote instruction. What the goodman hell is in-person remote instruction?”
Teachers have been left to create in-person online remote instruction plans with little guidance from administrators about how this new approach should work. “I’m thinking that I’ll have all the students bring in their laptops and then we can do the remote and online part on zoom while they’re in the classroom,” explained one middle school teacher. When asked how she would enforce proper social distancing she explained, “Well, I was thinking I would have everybody bring a blanket in and we could all turn our desks into forts. Then I could do the zoom instruction from under my fort-desk for all of them while they stay under their fort-desks. That way, also, if a real apocalypse happens while we’re in the classroom everybody will already be safely ensconced underneath their desks.”
Another teacher at a large public high school offered a different plan for in-person online remote instruction. “Well, you know that scene from WIlly Wonka when the kid gets shrunk and is broadcast on the TV? I was imagining something like that, but with computers.”
