Any thoughts about school?

Zayn Patel
7 min readNov 16, 2020

50% of individuals don’t participate in virtual school. 66% of students are bored and fail to turn in assignments. Lack of engagement had taken high schools across the country by storm and continued to discourage students, decrease grades, motivation, and learning.

After the kickoff of the 2020/21 school year, students were ecstatic, heading towards another year of school, while online; it was exciting. Three weeks in, all cameras were off, breakout rooms became a ghost-town, and ALL the teacher survey data was pessimistic. “Boring” was the word of the hour. After looking at the…

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Zayn Patel

Working on space technology and policy, improving government with data science, and launching a cubesat mission.