From today, for the first time in New Zealand, school will be broadcast on television.
For those students with computers, they will have switched to learning online.
But for the tens of thousands of Kiwi kids who don't have the Internet, let alone a device, they're desperately waiting for workbooks and devices from the Ministry of Education.
Do you think remote or online schooling will be effective?
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