SF and NY, and likely more cities, are busily right now setting up free “learning pods” to educate children in the absence of schools. Childcares that will assist children with their “remote learning,” and offer lunch, recess, and social contact with other kids. In other words, school.
This is what the Dems will demand the pandemic emergency school funds be used for. That and laptops.
The middle class and wealthy kids will be left to band together and pool together funds to hire their own tutors for “microschools.” This is happening—but can the entire middle class afford to do this?
The United States educational system is rapidly transforming all this week. I hope the fed govt does something quickly.
Effectively the entire middle/upper classes in the US are being asked to leave—are being pushed out from—public school altogether, but are of course being asked to foot the bill for it. It’s OK to leave them home alone on their laptops apparently.
“pool together funds to hire their own tutors for ‘microschools.’ This is happening—but can the entire middle class afford to do this?”
I’ve believed for a long time that the local churches, if they’re able, should have a line item in their budgets to subsidize, or pay for, the private (homeschool, religious, etc.) education of their members’ kids.