LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An unknown number of virtual classrooms in Jefferson County were interrupted on the first day of virtual school, according to a district spokesperson.
What You Need to Know
- Virtual classrooms in JCPS experience interruptions
- Students crash classrooms they aren't assigned to
- JCPS working to find out who the students were
- Interruptions caused by students sharing links to their classrooms
“There were some limited disruptions, some isolated incidents, some students from other classes coming into the classrooms that they were not assigned to. That’s the information we have right now, during some of those live instructional sessions,” Renee Murphy told Spectrum News 1.
The district would not describe exactly what happened but said, “Behavior we don’t want to tolerate here in JCPS, so we’re working to find out exactly who the students are, and we will address it with those students.”
Also, Murphy says the district believes it was only JCPS students involved in the disruptions. Live virtual classroom lessons have been hosted by Google Meet, and Murphy says it appears students were sharing links among classmates, allowing them to enter classes they were not assigned.
“If a student were to have a password and a link for their live instructional session, they could share that with another student. So we are encouraging our families right now to have conversations with your students, encourage them not to share their live instructional meeting links,” Murphy said.
The district says these interruptions happened at several middle and high schools across the district, but JCPS is still determining exactly how many.
Nearly 100,000 students attend JCPS schools across all grades.
For now, some teachers are offering pre-recorded lessons until the district finds a solution or an alternative to the Google Meet platform.