NYC remote learning plagued by tech issues as winter storm hits: ‘Just let kids have a snow day’
NY Post
Remote learning for New York City public schools got off to a chaotic start Tuesday with frustrated students and teachers plagued by a slew of technical glitches as they tried to log on for virtual classes during the snowstorm.
Students and educators across the Big Apple were hit with “service unavailable” messages as they attempted to access the Department of Education’s learning systems for the first day of remote learning since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Perhaps the DOE should just let kids have a snow day,” Adam Bergstein, an English teacher at Forest Hills High School in Queens, told The Post.
“But, what do they give us, a system that fails and crashes miserably. The New York City Department of Education has literally screwed up the recipe for ice. That sums up the NYC DOE.”
Others across the city reported issues accessing essential services including Google Classroom, Chromebooks and Zoom, while some teachers said they were struggling to even log into their emails and take attendance.
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