The weirdest things seen on google meets.

Seeing weird things online isn’t something students aren’t familiar with, especially during the distance learning period. Almost every student here at BHS has seen abnormal things in and out of the classroom. 

After our school district went to lockdown this past year, classes got way more interesting. Having to deal with doing google meets, doing schoolwork while in bed, not having hands on learning, students suffered. Looking back, students laugh at what they called a “normal” year. After a year of daily lows, we can look back and laugh at what we saw each day during distance learning.

During google meets, pets began to become our classmates. One student had seen this for herself during a virtual English class. “This kid’s dog pooped on the carpet during class, and he showed everyone because our teacher didn’t believe him.” 

Some of the other responses we received were a little more bizarre to experience in a “school friendly” google meet, “I saw like a half naked person walking around in the background of someone’s screen.” While things began to increase in the level of weirdness, this quote proved our point; “He bent over the screen and his whole ass was out, it was hairy”. Yup. Surprisingly many students had seen butts during their English classes…..

Teachers also had some weird encounters while trying to get a grasp of this new style of teaching. 

“It was weird for me to be on a  google meet with my own son, because he was in my class. He would be upstairs learning about what I was teaching downstairs.”. Teachers not being able to see their sons or daughters for the whole school day, within the same household  was an awkward feeling shared throughout the staff.    

Asking about the untold  stories of online learning, this began to shed some light on a demanding year. With COVID cases rising, many wonder if distance learning will come back, making more stories to share and more butts to see.