The children left behind in online learning

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Post Reports, how distance learning widens the digital divide and leaves disconnected students behind. The unique challenges of special education during the pandemic. And, the toxic side of positivity.

Education reporter Moriah Balingit on how schoolchildren are being locked out of virtual classrooms because of poor Internet connections. As many of the nation’s classrooms are moving online, more than 17 million students do not have high-speed Internet at home.

As schools reopen, education reporter Perry Stein says that “the stakes are high for everyone. They are high for every child who’s not in school. But they are particularly high for special education kids.”

The world has been turned upside, and experts say it’s okay if you’re not okay with that. Wellness reporter Allyson Chiu reports on the toxic effects of forced positivity.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.6	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post-Fulley.
0:07.9	How are you?
0:08.9	He there, it's Simon from the Post.
0:10.9	Hey, it's Dave Farranty from the Post.
0:12.9	Have you got a seat?
0:13.9	This is Post Reports.
0:14.9	I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, September 2.
0:23.6	Today learning remotely without good internet.
0:27.3	New challenges for special education and the talks excite of positivity.
0:36.1	The digital divide, I feel like consists of having access to two things.
0:41.4	Having a device and as well as internet, but not just internet, high speed internet.
0:50.1	My name is Kimberly Vasquez.
0:52.1	I'm a rising senior at Baltimore City College High School.
0:57.6	Like myself, I get kicked out of Zoom calls all the time.
1:02.2	You know, and it's very unfortunate.
1:05.3	You don't have internet, you can't participate on your classes.
1:11.1	So even in situations where families have, technically, have a high speed internet connection,
1:16.5	if it's not working very well, perhaps because of the part of the city they live in or because
1:20.4	they're paying for a discounted service, it can make it really, really difficult for kids
1:25.2	to learn.
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