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Which one is it then? Bad online learning or bad reopening plan? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/the-woeful-inadequacy-of-school-reopening-plans

• nynx 6y ago
  Can it not be both?
• throwawaygh 6y ago
  1. How are those two things mutually exclusive? Re-opening plans were inadequate and also remote learning leaves students behind. There's "No Silver Bullet" in software, and educating the country's children in a pandemic is infinitely more complicated than most software projects. (And, BTW, re-opening schools also isn't an either/or... but hard-line partisans on both sides are giving school district admins hell about any attempt at a hybrid approach) 2. Even if you think those two things are mutually exclusive, which they're not, why can't the New Yorker publish two different pieces on two different perspectives written by two different people (Alec MacGillis and Amy Davidson Sorkin)? It's a magazine, not a party platform.
  • jrumbut 6y ago
    This is such a common misunderstanding it might be time to consider labels or an explanation somewhere about the difference between reporting, commentary, and advocacy (among other categories). The New Yorker is particulary tricky because they blend all of the above along with fiction and satire.
• happytoexplain 6y ago
  They aren't mutually exclusive, of course. You seem to be reaching to find a contradiction, but why?