There seems to be growing discontent with remote learning taking place during the lockdown on school attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Are there deeper reasons for this other than many such programs being impromptu because of lack of foresight they would be needed?

Indeed, this is the case. You are seeing through the scheme of education that "The Emperor has no clothes!" When children are in their homes where they are used to some measure of freedom, it is much, much harder to make them behave as prisoners and follow the mundane instructions of a teacher about things the students care little about for the most part. So what passes for education in a school setting takes place largely because the children are a captive audience and are forced to listen and forced to carry out the instructions of the teacher. There is nowhere for them to go except to leave in shame with a severe disciplinary admonishment that would be highly embarrassing and shameful to many in having to face their parents as a disappointment to their teacher. We have discussed with you the poverty of ideas and the entire scheme for education being one of serving up yesterday’s news, in effect, old information of little current value. Children ideally deserve to be near the center of things and very much a part of life on all levels, not thrown in over their heads to the deep end of the pool, but allowed to assist, observe, and contribute in some way to the workings of life. That is what will truly prepare them for citizenship and a career much better than rote learning of facts about things that have already taken place once removed as mere descriptions rather than personal involvement. In that respect, school is a simulation of life rather than being life itself. So by that analogy, remote learning is a mere simulation of a simulation and is why it tends to fall apart so readily. It’s like being hungry and watching on TV someone talking about people having dinner, it is not the same thing and will do little for the appetite except to stir up inner yearnings that will never be satisfied while part of the school system. That is the real tragedy here, the stultifying diminishment of the individual, let alone the consequences for the country.