Abolish the Zoom Breakout Room

It was cute at first, but enough is enough.

We’ll pretend this is a Zoom breakout room graphic for the sake of my sanity.

Today, I sat silently in a Breakout Room — Zoom’s seemingly innovative way to mirror IRL group discussion online — waiting for someone else to talk. When they inevitably didn’t, I’d toss in a few questions here and there to try to illicit a response from my peers to no avail (to be fair, the reading was dense and I’m sure none of us were…