Nine-year-old Samia Abdul-Kadir says she enjoys the online lessons.
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The children's enthusiasm for these one-to-one onlinelessons, which are run by the Bright Spark Education company, is matched by the tutors themselves.
Each boy has a parent in the city watching over him, as well as Lisa Swift, their teacher, who tries to squeeze in as many onlinelessons as possible in between choreography tuneups.
The Department of Education has also posted generic lessonsonline, but they don't help students who can't read words, only pictures, Ms. Schwartz-Nyitray said.