09/09/2020

School in the Age of COVID-19

A series of impossible decisions

The coronavirus pandemic has forced people to perform complicated mental gymnastics and assess the risk of nearly every interaction they have. And now that fall is here, parents, teachers and kids in the U.S. are being forced to make nearly impossible decisions about how to handle school.

For some school districts in the U.S., that means making school entirely virtual. Others are experimenting with hybrid learning models, where students and school staff are home some days and in the classroom on other days.

Some families have formed “pandemic pods”—which has sparked important conversations about privilege, the equity gap in education, and what an increasingly privatized school system might look like. And of course, there’s the not-insignificant question of how safe these various learning environments are when the cumulative number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. exceeds 6 million.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.