If you think moving school online is a "major upgrade", you're sadly mistaken outside of a few niches. K-5th grade is really difficult to do. It requires a full

If you think moving school online is a "major upgrade", you're sadly mistaken outside of a few niches. K-5th grade is really difficult to do. It requires a full time parent at home (which is not tenable for many families), and it's hard to have the curriculum be virtualized. This age range requires a lot of literally hands on teaching. Even older grades have trouble with virtual learning. Plus an important part of school is learning socialization skills. That's pretty hard to do online. Plus teachers will need more than a few weeks to adjust; curriculum development isn't trivial, and teachers would need to be retrained to use the new pedagogy. As the father of two, and someone who cut his teeth in online learning, it sounds great to say move "more courses online", but the reality is quite different.