The Privatized Internet Is Failing Our Kids
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-travesty-of-remote-learning-is-unfolding-in-real-time-6307975560
The failure of online schooling highlights a basic flaw in our digital infrastructure : It wasn’t built to supply public goods. Across much of the United States this week, schools “opened” via the internet, following others that had started remote learning last week or the week before. The results have been, at best, uneven ; at worst, heartbreaking. America’s Covid spring offered a glitchy preview of how replacing school buildings and classrooms with home Wi-Fi and Zoom rooms might work. Now (...)
