THE DISASTER IS ALREADY IN MOTION: ‘We need a disaster plan’ for failing students. “Ruby Rodriguez, 14, is a ninth-grader at a Catholic school in Milwaukee. All classes are remote. ‘She doesn’t know what her classmates look like, because nobody ever turns on their cameras,’ and there’s no student conversation in class, writes Richards. She claims not to know her English teacher’s name. Ruby’s ‘grades have dropped from A’s and B’s to D’s and F’s’.”