Going Back to Virtual Learning: The Challenges of Reopening High Schools

On our third day of hybrid instruction, my high school literature class and I played a game of telephone. One of the six masked students in my classroom shared a sentence about an event that day, and one of the 16 students calling in on Zoom tried to understand and repeat it. A “ride on the bus with freshmen” morphed into a “drop-kicked alien in a fiery bus.” Clearly, no one could hear anyone well in my hybrid classroom, where the goal was to teach an in-person cohort and at-home group at the sa
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