This must be the standard distance learning process because both my son and my wife (working on her masters) have to write a post and then respond to 2 other po

This must be the standard distance learning process because both my son and my wife (working on her masters) have to write a post and then respond to 2 other posts. It seems like fake discourse to me, all comments are written for the instructor to read and not for the OP. There is never a response to a response, thus no real discussion.