With students at home, "spring break" has very different meaning during coronavirus epidemic [edsource.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/10/204:31 PM

By Louis Freedberg, EdSource, April 10, 2020

This “spring break” is like no other for California.

Even as public schools are making a big push to ramp up their “distance learning” curriculum, millions of students, along with their teachers, are out on spring break this week.

A worrisome question is whether spring break at this crucial time will slow the implementation of distance learning, or whether it has given teachers much-needed breathing space to gear up for a more intensive online teaching regimen that many districts have begun or are planning to introduce in the coming weeks. Most teachers interviewed by EdSource welcomed the respite and the time to prepare, while parents and their children were more divided.

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