Kaiser Health News (August 31)For Kids with Special Needs, Online Schooling Divides Haves and Have-NotsIt’s Tuesday morning, and teacher Tamya Daly has her online class playing an alphabet game.
The students are writing quickly and intently, with occasional whoops of excitement, on the little whiteboards she dropped off at their homes the day before along with coloring books, markers, Silly Putty and other learning props — all of which she created or paid for with her own money.
Two of the seven children in her combined third and fifth grade class weren’t home when Daly came by with the gift bags. One of the two managed to find her own writing tablet, thanks to an older brother, but the other can’t find a piece of paper in her dad’s house..