Children without PCs, laptops and tablets are falling behind in school, with some London teachers disconnected from up to a third of their classroom.
The pace of the pandemic and the U.K.’s subsequent shutdown has left some schoolchildren facing a new rich-poor technology divide while isolated from computers and facilities they would otherwise use at school computer rooms or at public libraries.
Teachers and legislators are fighting a range of homeschooling technology problems ranging from a lack of home internet, or households where email is only accessed by mobile. In some cases homeschooling is proving “impossible” for families where three, four or five siblings are using a single laptop or tablet.