Ummm… yeah. So true here. Zoom is about the easiest platform I know but Zoom is out of favor in many districts due to privacy concerns.
I’m pretty sure that one reason why parents and students are massing to fight the possible evil of masks is that some issues are too complicated to parse out and manage easily. A proliferation of apps in a world where many parents are not technogeeks, or interested in finding the keys to Geekdom, will be daunting to parents. I suspect some parents have launched war on the Western front because the Eastern front is simply too fraught with weirdness. Too much Kracklezam only intimidates that mom or dad who doesn’t live on their laptop and can’t stand remote meetings.
As I read posts yesterday between people who were looking into homeschooling, I thought maybe Technoweirdness was part of the many parents making homeschooling recommendations, combined with the fact that many parents would love a viable remote option for when people got sick etc. — but instead they get Kracklezam.
We don’t educate parents enough. No one can besnoggle a snork until they learn what a snork is and maybe have some practice besnoggling. Snorks also provide a reason to fight about masks. Sometimes people just feel like they have to fight about something, and masks is a thing we kinda, sorta understand.
At least until the government decides to explain them one more time.
(It took how long to decide that cloth masks were next to useless?)
