California Parents ‘Strike’ by Logging Their Kids Off Zoom Classes

California Parents ‘Strike’ by Logging Their Kids Off Zoom Classes
Evianna Van Santvoord, who is in kindergarten, does her schoolwork at home in San Anselmo, Calif., on March 18, 2020. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
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A Zoom “strike,” in which parents withdrew their children from distance learning, swept across California the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. It called for in-person classes to fully resume, as many schools across the state continue distance learning or only short periods of in-person teaching.

Joseph Chang of Kern County was one of the parents who “Zoomed out.” He recently posted a photo on social media of his second-grade daughter crying in front of a computer, and it went viral.