It’s been a month since most Bay Area schools shut down to combat the coronavirus, and many are just now launching online instruction.

“I want my kids to be taught by their teachers,” Lauren Goodman, parent of a Mill Valley second-grader, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Teachers are only instructing online where they see fit.”

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For the last month, parents of youngsters at many schools have been forced to fend for themselves, aided by education websites, worksheets and other assignments provided by schools. When San Francisco closed down buildings on March 16, officials told students to “work on their own or with adult support on learning activities,” though some teachers have kept close contact with their students.

Other schools in San Joaquin County are sending out optional paper packets, and asking teachers to explore online learning sites, but have not required actual instruction from educators, union president Jacqui Nott told the news site.

Many Bay Area parents are frustrated as schools in wealthier areas, private schools and others hold classes online daily, allowing students to interact with each other and teachers amid the shutdown. They told the Chronicle teachers continue to receive pay, so they expect real, interactive lessons of substance, rather than busy work that puts the burden on parents.

Part of the delay centers on technology, and San Francisco schools distributed 8,771 Chromebooks last week to improve access, but other barriers include the unions that represent teachers, which insist on crafting new work agreements amid the pandemic.

Regardless, San Francisco schools will start to “teach and communicate with students regularly in various ways” starting today, while offering printed materials for students who do not have computers or internet access, according to the news site.

Even schools prepared with plenty of computers are struggling to get students engaged, mostly because they weren’t prepared for such an abrupt transition to online instruction.

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Tracy Superintendent Brian Stephens told the Chronicle simply buying more computers for students without access won’t solve the problem.

“You can have a device for every student, but if you haven’t trained your staff and students for online learning, it really doesn’t matter if you have a device or not,” he said. “I’m not just going to be somebody who goes out and buys a bunch of devices. I don’t believe that’s necessarily the answer.”

In places like the Oakland school district, officials have managed to distribute some devices and transition to online lessons, but students aren’t showing up.

English teacher Brennan Nicholas told the Chronicle less than half the students are signing in for online classes, partially because some don’t have computers or internet access.

But also because students are seemingly taking advantage of the pandemic to skip classes because they know there will likely be no consequence, Nicholas said.

“The word has circulated that they’re really not going to be held accountable,” he said.