If I was born in 2000, the year I wanted to be born in, and still got stuck with a para in my 7th grade year in 2012, would there have been Skype and Zoom video classes that I could watch from an ISS conference room screen?
I love technology so much, I'll welcome the Technological Singularity with open arms and get augmented upgrades to my body. (See r/Singularity to learn more about the event projected to arrive between 2029-2045.)
I would've loved being able to still watch a teacher instruct class via Skype / Zoom / whatever videoconferencing service was popular in 2012 from a conference room video screen when I'd inevitably go to in-school suspension numerous times just to hide my association with a para from all the other students. I'd have my camera turned off, of course, unless my para decided to sit away from the camera's view.
Would attending a class by teleconference been allowed for a 7th grader to do in in-school suspension (ISS) in 2012? And how about now in 2025?
My academic growth wouldn't have been stunted if I hadn't missed class numerous times by going to ISS just to hide my having anything to do with my para, from all the other students. After all, having a para seen following you around by all other students in 1997-1998 carried a big stigma. Would the same size of stigma have existed for para'd students in 2012-2013? And how about 2025? Did kids become more tolerant of para'd kids later on?
So if class teleconferencing was allowed from ISS from 2012, see why I needed to be born in 2000?
And lastly, would kids in OSS also get to attend a class teleconference from anywhere they could have an internet connection?
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