In Los Angeles, middle- and high-schoolers spend only two to three days a week in a physical school building. Teachers often stream lessons virtually even while students are in classrooms. Students usually get less than an hour a day with an in-person teacher, according to the nonprofit Innovate Public Schools. Most elementary schools offer classroom instruction to students for only a few hours each day. Likewise in New York City, “the teachers are still missing from 75% of the classrooms and 75% of the children attending these so-called ‘open schools’ are subjected to ‘remote learning’ within the classroom also dubbed as ‘zoom in a room,’” according to a lawsuit filed by parents last month. In Seattle, K-5 students are back at school four days a week but only for 2 hours and 45 minutes each day. The situation is little better in many suburban districts. At Oregon’s Reynolds School District, most schools let children return to the classroom two days each week for only three hours or less. Hours of instruction vary by school, grade level and class, complicating schedules for parents, especially those with more than one child.