Parents grapple with e-learning as Chinese schools stay shut


Teacher Wang Guanxin of the ITutorGroup instructing other teachers how to teach online in Shanghai. Yang, founder of the Shanghai-based iTutorGroup, said the number of online classes taken on its platforms was three times more than the previous year during the first ten days of February. — AFP

The weeks-long closure of schools over virus fears across China and Hong Kong is testing kids – and their parents.

Working mom Chen Yan has taken to installing a surveillance camera at home to see what her 12-year-old son is up to during the day while she’s at the office in the mainland city of Shaoguan, in Guangdong province.

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