I'm not sure what exactly has happened to our county's virtual schooling this year, but it's a huge step down from last year. As to the difference between online schooling and virtual schooling here, online schooling was done, for the most part, without benefit of an actual teacher, or classroom. Virtual schooling, on the other hand, has a teacher, and classroom environment. When the kids log in, they can see their teacher, and classmates. They can interact through their microphones, and cameras. There is software, so when they push a key, it's the equivalent of them raising their hand. The teacher can call on the students by name, asking a question, and expecting an audible answer.
The software has changed this year, and it's not as good as last year. It's still very buggy too. School started 3 weeks ago, and they're still trying to get kids registered into the system. They've claimed they were overwhelmed, both in real life at the schools, and for virtual schooling. That's not overly surprising. Florida is the second highest state, that people moved to, this past summer. The sheer numbers of people flocking into our state has been huge. It's not surprising that housing, schools, roads, libraries, post offices, stores, etc. have been overwhelmed with the influx.
Being a tourist state, we are accustomed to plenty of tourists coming throughout the summer, then leaving when school starts. This past year, it's been like all the tourists, their families, their friends, and their friends' families poured into the state, but didn't leave when school started.
I’ll just leave it at that.
Hope it's a wonderful day for everyone.
but I'm terrified of trying to prepare it myself. Not even sure I would recognize it in the yard.
