For rural students, distance education can keep existing inequities in place.
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Since COVID there has been an expansion in online options for school students. This includes individual classes and complete distance education.
Students who study remotely need to have someone supervise them in-person. If it’s not a family member, it is an external tutor, who are hard to recruit and keep.
Training for academics needs to be timely, specific, relevant and appropriate for the technology being implemented.
As a result of long remote learning periods due to COVID, many families have found they prefer this method over traditional school.
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