Throughout the last three years of high school, I was enrolled in the K12 online program with Agora Cyber Charter school; therefore, all of my classes were online. I can say, through experience, that no, teaching online classes does not eliminate inequality in the school districts. Even as a student, I still had gender biases. For instance, in Literature every week, we had to complete an online discussion. When reading and replying to the different students, I would normally pick and choose whose discussion post I read, based on their gender, depending on the discussion topic. So, if I'm being unintentionally bias, I'm sure the teachers can do the same.
I also don't think technology is the solution to any of our moral problems. Gender bias/inequality is a human fault. Technology was created by humans; therefore, technology is not going to solve our moral problems, because it was humans who created it, and our faults have not changed from the invention of technology. If the faults are still in the creator, they will not be resolved from the creation. Therefore, I do not believe that teaching online classes would eliminate inequality in the school districts. Eliminating inequality will take much more means, than that.
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