I put this on fb on August 6, 2020.

Putting it here, so I can always say "I told you so!"

Online school was mostly a complete failure. It means most of a generation of kids will not get an education until schools reopen.

Also, keep in mind the long-term consequences of an entire generation of parents (and property tax payers) being enormously pissed at public education. Those parents with the means to do so will find alternatives. Those with the ability to homeschool, will. Those who can find an online charter, will. Those who can afford to find online or in-person alternatives, will.

Those parents may never send their kids back to publics again. This will cause greater white flight from the public school system than forced busing did decades ago. People with the ability to find alternatives will be disproportionately white.

When schools reopen, they will be faced with slashed enrollments, and many schools will never recover. This will be the biggest blow to public schooling the US has ever seen.