A virtual writing class via Zoom, and my apology session with God afterwards.
- Julie R. Neidlinger
- Oct 15, 2025
- 8 min read
I don’t know how the kids did it, during the pandemic.
I don’t know how they were able to learn via Zoom and online platforms.
How were you able to, for example, diagram a sentence without spitballs flying overhead? How were you able to work the quadratic equation without some moron in the back row tossing freshly sharpened pencils into the ceiling tiles? How were you able to learn without textbooks, piles of paper and notebooks, the math teacher confiscating your pen because math homework is to be done in pencil—I honestly don’t know. I don’t know how they learn with screens and computers instead of books, chalk, and paper, and I don’t know how they learned virtually.
