

Students might not have a room in which they can close the door to be in a private space.Students might not want to show their current living situations (try virtual backgrounds).Students might be self-conscious about seeing themselves on camera.Reasons why students should be encouraged to have cameras on, yet given choice: The Instructional Handbook for Online Learning and Hybrid Model details as follows:

But out of all this chaos, one important factor stands, and it’s that students just don’t participate anymore.Īs schools started to adapt to this new system of distance learning, LAUSD had placed a ruling that students cannot be forced to turn on their cameras. This effect has made students stuck in their homes, bedrooms, or whatever space they can find to continue their education, where many do not have access to technology and are forced to be given laptops that don’t work, or WiFi hotspots that are cut-out frequently. Educating about 600,000 students, and home to 1,000 schools of all levels, they have faced a major disruption, like most schools around the world, as Covid-19 had forced the shut-down of all educational learning sites that reside in their area of power. The Los Angeles Unified School District is one of the largest school systems in the United States.
