Some teachers in Auckland ventured back into classrooms this week for limited in-person teaching in level 3, but for most students in Tāmaki Makaurau it's teaching by Zoom for a while yet.
Educators are voicing concerns over the effect that the long lockdown will have on educational inequality, especially for Māori and Pasifika pupils.
New research out from the Education Review Office this morning found that before the August lockdown, nearly one in five low decile students didn't have a device at home. For students at high decile schools, it was just one in 20.
At Finlayson Park Primary School, a decile one school in Manurewa, South Auckland, the school's supply of resources isn't enough to stretch to every student, many of whom rely on parents' limited cellphone data to access online learning.
The picture is very different across the city in Epsom, where decile nine Auckland Grammar School has offered devices and wifi modems to every student who needs it.
Finlayson Park School principal Shirley Maihi, and Auckland Grammar headmaster Tim O'Connor spoke to Corin Dann.
