There Is No Good Reason To Return To School
Amid all of the debate about when and how America should reopen its schools, there has been little talk about why we should bother to at all. The arguments are familiar:
- We’re exacerbating inequalities and widening the achievement gap
- Staying home is bad for kids’ mental health and social development
- We can’t restart the economy without reopening the schools
- Remote learning is a poor substitute for in-person learning and it sucks in all sorts of small and not-so-small ways.
Those are in fact all good reasons to return to school as it was. But none of them are good reasons to return to school as it is likely to be.
While no one knows exactly what reopened schools will look like next fall, we can look to schools that have reopened for some indications.
Here’s what Quebec is doing:
Here’s an example from France showing what social distancing on a CONTINUE READING: There Is No Good Reason To Return To School - Teacher Habits