Homeschooling

My brother's school was closed down starting today. Thus far, there have been two students in his school that have been inflicted with the H1N1 virus (damn, that's a mouthful to say). While there's nothing to indicate that these cases are connected to the school, the school has been closed down anyway as a precaution.

So even snotty rich kids in private schools get the H1N1. Actually, if you ask me, they're probably more likely to get it, since they travel more. My brother told me one of his classmates was planning to go to Australia for their upcoming holiday in July. They would probably have to cancel now. Tsk.

In the meantime, my brother is being homeschooled. His school being a schmancy private school, they have an online e-learning portal. He and his schoolmates are therefore expected to log on at 8am sharp, stay online and enter their class chatrooms, and stay there doing work until "school" ends at 4. (What kind of fantasy world does his school admin live in?)

Surprisingly, my brother was all enthusiasm over learning online. His enthusiasm was duly crushed however, by the fact that he could not log in to the system despite numerous attempts. On the chance occasion that he did make it all the way to the chatroom, he reported that he was the only one there. When I woke up this morning, he was scowling and complaining about the "Internet connection", whilst clicking away at an online game. (ok, I may be exaggerating about the complaining)

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if the problem was the Internet connection, he wouldn't be able to access the online game, correct? To clarify, I watched my brother attempt to log in a couple of times and failing miserably. My suspicions confirmed, I concluded that the school's server had crashed due to the large number of students accessing the system at the same time.

So much for online learning. *snickers*

In the meantime, what of my brother's education?

Enter Shira the tuition teacher..? Dun dun dun...