[ISiddiqui]

What seems strange about 'essential worker'-izing teachers is that the work can be done remotely in a lot of places. That is something that distinguished essential workers - you couldn't do it at home. You had to go in to work at a grocery store, or fight fires, or police areas.

Anyways, my county is doing virtual learning - pushed back the start of school a few weeks, and then will reassess at the next School Board meeting in September. They are using Microsoft Teams and every kid was assigned a Chromebook. Wife says they are doing for each class 15 mins of teacher lecture followed by 20 mins (or so) of students doing the work - and teachers can correct on the fly. Though I have to ask her how that works for art - as there is digital art you can do but most of elementary art is using physical materials. Maybe they show them after the time?