Student Perspectives: Homeschooling During COVID-19, Silas Richards
February 9, 2021
By Silas Richards, 6th Grade
2020 was an interesting year for school. Once lockdown started and everything shut down, we had to do schooling online. At first I hated the idea of classes online, but it turned out to be surprisingly good. I don’t really know why. Maybe it’s because once schooling finished for the day, you didn’t have to drive all the way home, or because there’s just less social interaction, which I like. However, there are a few downfalls. One being that sometimes students have poor connection to the internet when on a Zoom meeting, and can’t communicate well. This is fixed with the ability to chat privately with your tutor. It might be a little tougher to decide if I liked Zoom or in-person better if in-person was normal, but due to COVID-19, we had most of our classes outside, and it can get very, very cold. Sometimes even below freezing. Overall, online schooling is not the greatest, but far from the worst.