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It's not ironic at all to realize that remote learning is worsening racial and economic disparities in education. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...


In-person learning does, too. Districts with more minority students tend to have larger class sizes. Fewer technology resources. Less property tax to draw upon.

In-person instruction - which 95% of American schools were doing in January of this year, and 99% of them in December (https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-12-...) - isn't gonna solve these structural problems.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-person-learning-wasnt-...

> Hailey is not alone. As the U.S. reaches the second anniversary of the pandemic, a growing number of parents and psychiatrists report that a return to in-person learning was not the magic bullet many had hoped it would be for school-age children and that the pandemic has resulted in a host of mental health challenges even for those young people who seemed as recently as a year ago to be faring relatively well.


Remote learning makes these gaps wider. Yes, they already exist. But making things worse for minorities isn't the solution imo. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-milli...


The claim is not that in person learning fundamentally solves these problems. The claim is that remote learning makes these problems worse, offering a clear rationale to return back to in person learning.


The causes for the inequity in remote learning are the same ones causing the inequity in in-person learning, though.




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