Now parents are going to be called “racist” for setting up alternatives to public schools that the dems want to remain shut down.
They will probably make homeschooling against the law just to hold everyone back equally I’m school.
Freedom of association is RAYCISS!
Maybe they can rent classrooms at the neighborhood school.
With the Schools refunding taxes to all of course.
Parents should demand that 75% of the teachers and 90% of school administrators be laid off if schools remain closed. Teachers and admins can apply for unemployment just like everyone else.
Poor kids are stupid anyway.../s
I am the product of public skrewel
I have a 10th grade education and two years of college
Fact is, I had parents who encouraged my education and curiosity
I never stopped learning
Oh yeah, the 10th grade education thing: I tested out
And NYC and SF, likely other cities, have already set up new “educational assistance centers” where disadvantaged kids now denied their schools can go, be assisted with their “online learning” on their laptops, and have lunch, recess, and be with other children.
In other words. . .school. Some will even be set up in. . .school. The only difference is the absence of unionized teachers.
Meanwhile yes the wealthier parents will hire tutors and set up their private versions. The new one room schoolhouse.
“...white parents are again ignoring racial and class inequality when it comes to educating their children.”
“Less privelged” children = children with incompetent parents, yes?
“But in practice, they [pods] will exacerbate inequities, racial segregation and the opportunity gap within schools ... white parents are again ignoring racial and class inequality when it comes to educating their children”
there’s only one solution: state laws need to be passed making it illegal for parents to educate their own children because some parents won’t do that ...
This is a job for the Handicapper General.
Based on what I’ve seen online, the learning pod movement appears to be led by families with means, a large portion of whom are white.
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Translation. “I have no facts, but I have a narrative to push.”
Learning pods are ad hoc arrangements today, but if this persists, it will be interesting to see how many parents convert permanently to homeschooling cooperatives. Heck, some suburbanites will finally have found a good use for those spare rooms in their McMansions, which can become fully appointed, well equipped classrooms for a cluster of kids in the neighborhood. My prediction is that many of these that are supervised by gifted tutors will far outperform the conventional public school norm, due to fewer distractions, far less wasted time, fewer disciplinary problems, and more individualized instruction. A lot of parents may never go back.
How long can the schools stay closed, and still provide the free meals that disadvantaged kids are used to getting? Is this the new normal, where kids don't get taught, we just feed them like livestock? We are learning to be dependent at ever earlier ages...
What about diplomas? ACT and SAT tests are under attack now (racism, supposedly). Parents who don't use the public schools anymore will have kids who don't graduate?
Still more questions - if the gov't can't or won't teach kids any more, why should they get to determine what gets taught, what level of education each child attained, advancement to next level, etc.?
Here is something to get the official's attention with ...
So what's the point of your article? You offer no solutions, only complain of the workarounds that parents are forced to use.
How did the human race ever manage to survive without computers to educate their kids.
Seriously, what'd they use? Books??
Slates with slate pencils??
Just spending time reading?
They wont suffer if they get their allotted voucher money and take it to a private or charter school or private pod.
The Indian kids in my neighborhood have been doing this for decades.