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Kids Remote Learning Over the Radio During the Polio Outbreak, 1937
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, we had to get used to long-distance learning. Modern kids were taken out of the classroom and kept at home so they could do their lessons over Zoom. But this was not the first time in history where something like that happened. Back in 1937, during the Polio Outbreak, many kids did remote learning by listening to a teacher over the radio in Chicago. After the city had recorded 109 cases of Polio in August of 1937, the city decided to ban children from going on the playground or showing up in public spaces, like a movie theater. They delayed the opening of school for three weeks, and made them do radio schooling instead. Seven different radio stations offered to help with the programming, so that different grades could have their own stations.