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Originally Posted by 1stindoor
Same experiences at our house. Another part of the bigger problem is that the IT infrastructure isn't there to support thousands of school aged kids trying to log on at the same time and stream online content.
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Our teen kids have been using supplementary education platforms like Khan Academy(all subjects), duo lingo(language), and AI math tutor Amy.app for years.
On top of the school digital platform.
Our kids’ school responded pretty quickly, so still reactive rather than proactive.
But our kids’ habits/behaviours have been little changed, they’re just doing more of the same at home.
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One thing to consider is higher education.
Universities have all been struggling with both a broken higher education model(bang for the buck is negative) and a fast growing digital model that will disrupt them.
Outside of the top 20 schools with the brands and the endowments to survive, there is a good chance of a massive slaughter in higher education over the next 12-18 months.
An argument can be made that this could reduce the safe haven’s of domestic adversaries.
Another argument can be made that destroying the safe haven income streams of domestic adversaries will see them shift towards more aggressive direct political action. That could get ugly, but it could bring adversaries more out into the open. Maybe it results in a Weather Underground 2.0
There will certainly be a very loud call for bailouts of universities.
At the federal level, my thought is that any federal funding boost to universities should be solely in the form of hard science only R&D with commercial potential and conditions around non citizen foreign graduate student access from some countries.