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My sister has 3 kids in primary school and luckily for her I was able to repurpose some items marked for disposal and give her access two laptops she could use for them else they were dividing up 2 computers among 5 people to use for home schooling and working from home.

As an aside to this last point, I've been helping guys at work setup Raspberry Pi 4b for use at home for their kids and grandchildren. You can get a kit including a case and cables for under about $150, and you end up with a NUC style Debian Linux box that runs LibreOffice, etc., on any HDMI capable display.  The biggest expense is often keyboard and mouse if you have to add them in assuming you can't get hold of old ones, the Logitech K400s work quite well as a combo and can be found quite cheaply. Because Raspian is targeted at young kids learning to be coders, even though oldies can use it for IoT dev, it's setup to be quite simple to manage compared to a normal Debian distro, and has some useful generic controls for printers, WiFi, etc., etc.. You still need to have a home WiFi or Ethernet setup, because at that price there is no real-time clock in those devices, so they get the date and time off the network. Being Linux, and being Raspberry PI, they are also easy to pre-configure in kiosk mode so that a power cycle cleans all the garbage.

In a decade or so we might have a whole generation of tech heads come out of this pandemic!