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With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.
Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 13 2020, @08:00PM
A lot of the best universities have made much of their lecture material available online, pretty much everything but the textbooks. Also, at least Harvard [harvard.edu] and MIT [mit.edu] are conducting classes online after spring break, so I bet you could audit the simpler ones with a bunch of students in the same venue, but with less professional experience.
You could also go outside and play -- if you're lucky, that protective coat of dirt can barricade/encapsulate the viruses and leave you with just good-old bacteria. No surfaces, no stagnant air transmissibility, easy to stay more than 2m away from people, the daystar ... what's not to like?