Online learning in the US won’t be enough to help students keep pace with their lessons.
Need more than online learning in the US
It has been weeks since the lockdown in the US has been initiated. Schools were shut down and physical classes were restricted. As a countermeasure, the education ministry suggested an alternative, online learning in the US.
But as distance learning came into implementation, many school leaders question its effectiveness in helping students keep pace with their school lessons. Studying from home promotes numerous disturbances that can hinder students from literally learning from their online lessons.
Online learning in the US is not as effective as the Education Ministry perceived it to be. In Los Angeles alone, 25 percent of its student population under distance learning haven’t made a single log in ever since the program started. Difficulties like lack of internet access and devices to log on, hinder students especially those in the poverty line to attend online classes.
If poverty is an issue for online learning, what more is the effect of it in areas not so economically luxurious compared to Los Angeles. Also to be considered, that in a household with more than two children going into online classes, a shared device won’t be enough to keep them in class.
More funding needed
In an effort to make things possible with the ideas in mind as a replacement for online learning in the US, a group of school administrators and teachers aim to slip in an additional budget from Congress. With $13.5 billion out of two trillion dollars stimulus package going out to K-12 funding, the group aims to exhaust another $200 billion in the next session of Congress.
But with the current economy out of the effect of COVID-19 in businesses all across the country, it will be hard to sneak in the additional budget for matters that are not as urgent in the fight against COVID-19. States all across the country are expected to have their economies plummeting from lack of revenues during this pandemic, and the stimulus package might not be enough to cover up such loss.
