Videoconferencing and the Pandemic?

Fred Lopez, a Santa Clara, California resident and tech executive, says that this school semester has been “an unmitigated disaster” for his kids even though two are in private colleges, and one is at a high-end private middle school. “They view online learning as boring, in addition to missing all the social interactions that made school fun. It’s easy to slip away to do anything more interesting than virtual schooling.”

Dr. C. Wolf Nordlinger
4 min readMay 8, 2020

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My friend, Pascal, a teacher at a low-income charter high school in San Francisco, feels that school has been a void this spring, “a lost semester”. He didn’t want to use his real name for fear the school would seek retribution. “It would make a big difference if the students were more motivated. Many of my low-income students don’t even have access to an available computer. And I can’t force my kids to turn on their…

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Dr. C. Wolf Nordlinger

PhD, Fulbright Scholar. Writer (Wash. Post,Fortune) Natural Foods. AI-Cybersecuruty Nexus. U.S. State Dep't. Cisco,Splunk,Palo Alto Networks.