Published by Raymond Alvin on 11/13/20
While the quality of education for many students has gone down with distance learning, there are still some benefits. The main benefit of distance learning is the schedule flexibility. During the 2019-2020 school year, most students had very few live meetings to attend and all of the work assigned could be done at any time. I had about one mandatory meeting a week and everything else I had to do could be done whenever I had the time. Due to the lack of live meetings, distance learning was pretty much just homework and all of the required work could be finished before a normal school day would even end. This year, daily live meetings are required. On Mondays, students briefly meet with all of their classes. School begins at 9 A.M. and ends at 2:30. During normal times, school would begin at 7 A.M. and end at 1 P.M. Mondays are not much different from normal school days but are actually about an hour shorter now because a lunch break is included in the schedule for Monday now. (Usually students get out before lunch time on Mondays.) On Tuesday through Friday, students begin school at either 8 A.M. or 9 A.M. and ends at 12 P.M. Usually, school would start at 7 A.M. and end at 3 P.M. on these days. A lot of time is also saved because students do not have to get ready to go to school and some students, including myself, do not have to wait for the bus. Many teachers still seem to give less homework than usual despite less time in live meetings than normal school days. This homework is also due every two days now as opposed to homework given and due every day. All of this extra time adds up and while this may cause the quality of education to go down, I certainly have much more time to work on other things.
