Not sure how four hours in front of a virtual lecture works for kindergarten, or why it was seen as a viable approach.
Seriously lamenting the lack of innovative thinking around this. What a wasted opportunity to do something truly interesting with education.
This stuff is hard, and so many classroom models fail that I'm not surprised that "replicate the one that works" is gaining traction.
The kids require supervision by parents on the other end of the call to achieve even close to this (the parents don't have the same "classroom management" skills), so I figure... "Might as well do it myself". That's the main Zoom vs. Kindergarten difference.
Not to mention that home is filled with lots of fun, distracting stuff that the kids otherwise wouldn't have access to during the school day in a classroom.