Reading this paired with @debperelman piece this morning is such a gut punch. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/business/covid-economy-parents-kids-career-homeschooling.html https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1278675026112208897
I don't know what if anything can happen to make schools reopen safely, but I do know that families need active government, guidance, economic support, thoughtful approaches and engagement with something--anything--besides how to get money-making back on track. HELP HELP HELP.
These ideas strike me as great, if unlikely to be able to be implemented by September, but could we seriously get on them for January, because I have this chill, imagining having these same desperate conversations in October/November: https://twitter.com/DanaGoldstein/status/1278650986060447746?s=20
Also this thread, about how none of these impossible quandaries are new, just new to middle class white parents in such mass numbers: https://twitter.com/DearSplenda/status/1278674566626316288
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