Children without PCs, laptops and tablets are falling behind in school with some London teachers disconnected from up to a third of their classroom.
The pace of the pandemic and the U.K.’s subsequent shutdown has left some schoolchildren facing a new rich-poor technology divide while isolated from computers and facilities they would otherwise use at school computer rooms or at public libraries.
With approximately 180 children in each year group, and 1000 children in the school, over three hundred kids–albeit at different stages of their education–are isolated from their teachers. This is an unusual problem for teachers and students alike.AFP via Getty Images Malhotra describes a “combination of problems” with no single solution. “There may be no broadband. There may be broadband but no hardware [only mobiles]. These are the same kids that would have been able to use [school computers in] libraries and that option is now closed to them. The situation has now been compounded further by parents and other siblings needing to use the same home computer.”
“I spoke to a woman today and she's got 7 children in a three bedroom house and she's in meltdown because they're all fighting over the one laptop that their nan has lent them.” Admitting that there is no catch-all approach to dealing with a variety of different problems she adds that, “The schools know what's best” and are the best placed to allocate laptops and free WiFi data for the individual homes.
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