• TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    During online school we had to read about the “Edmund Fitzgerald” and there was a cringy song too. We were constantly being accused of skipping classes because zoom was under too much load and never loading, or would make 2 separate calls for some reason. Whole society under collapse and we had to uproot all of education just so we could learn that a fucking boat sank. THATS ALL THE UNIT WAS. Just a stupid boat sinking.

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      2 months ago

      My cousin was a teacher during COVID, working in rural Australia.

      There wasn’t enough internet there for video, there was barely enough for email. So he was driving to a different student’s house each day and teaching one kid at a time

      I think he was only responsible for a handful of kids

      That was the busiest time at work for me, I work in government information technology and my team was delivering a system to help businesses keep paying their locked down at home staff. We had to work in the office, in a place designed to hold a thousand people, but only twenty of us were there, until we were enabled to work from home

      COVID was worse than any fiction I ever read. So many people died. So many people live-blogged their own deaths

      • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        wow that’s a lot worse than my story of a stupid boat, crazy that there are still people that don’t have stable Internet.