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In the fall of 2019, my son, who has dyslexia, knew his last year of high school was going to be exclusively online due to the untimely closing of his charter school. It was almost immediately apparent, moving to online work, that the distance between my son and the classroom only increased his anxiety. Rather than offering a refuge from on-the-spot questions or improved access to technology supports for reading and writing, virtual learning required even more reading and writing, with multi-step written directions and vague writing assignments that offered little to no conversation to explore ideas. In short, it was much harder to be online than to be in a classroom.

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