I’ve been making K-12 plans for three weeks. You shouldn’t be excited. It’s one thing for people to prepare and plan and develop a curriculum that is suited for online learning. It is another to be told at a moment’s notice to shut down schools and turn to online learning.

And the internet is going to be fine, although individual sites with a sudden increase in traffic (Zoom, Skype, Office 365, etc) might have issues.

Why shouldn't I be excited?

I'm not saying I'm happy this is all happening, but I can be interested in seeing how all this works and see the positives, can't I?

Should I tell my kindergartner to be all grim and sad, or tell her that this is an adventure?

I agree. I would even dare to say that losing an entire year of K-12 is not catastrophic. Beneficial, even.

There's no need to go insane coming up with educational plans for the duration of the crisis.

For kindergarten, sure. But juniors and seniors? They don’t need excitement, they need stability.

Technically I was saying I, as a parent, am excited to see it.

I don't know that older kids really need stability so much. I mean, maybe overall, but I don't see why this is a big deal for them. (for the parents, trying to juggle work and this? sure)

Kids adapt to stuff like this fine. If they really need stability so much, maybe we should get rid of vacations...?

Our IT advised us to disconnect from the VPN when using webex, and definitely no video conference.

The VPN endpoint bw saturated, I guess 90% employee wfh wasn't a use case for network capacity planning of VPN link.

Yeah, how does that work? Are kindergartners capable of understanding what 'online' means? Do they have school-issued chromebooks yet, or does that wait until elementary school? Maybe the teachers just email activities to the parents?

Time to scale up and horizontal.