Ok so... something really important to remember is that what happened in the spring was a poorly planned for surprise change in curriculum to teachers who didn’t have the resources to suddenly shift a normal classroom online. https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1281900823308570625

Enrolling kids in an actual online curriculum is something different. It’s coursework designed for being done remotely and run by teachers who aren’t just trying to patch together something as close to what they planned to do in the classroom but online.

In my opinion, the biggest danger to student learning for the fall and wishy washy, often politically driven attitude from districts that refuse to make a decision on what to do for the fall, giving our teachers poor time to plan. And making a poor plan that changes.

Anything kids lose by being online is easily out weighed by the lack of consistency in going to a classroom that has constantly changing standards, potential goes on and off line because they have to periodically close, and making k-12 teachers accommodate an impossible hybrid

There’s a good conversation to have about how to manage small scale reopenings for the kids that really have no where to go and few resources.

But please don’t confuse the mess that happened in the spring with what attending a fully online curriculum looks like.

It’s correct to worry about young kids with parents who can’t or won’t be willing to aid their education, this is a problem.

But this situation isn’t causing a new problem, it’s highlighting a huge flaw in our current system. Y’all, those kids were already being left behind.

So we absolutely need to address the problem of how to ensure that some of our most vulnerable young kids are educated... but sending everyone back to the classroom isn’t actually doing that, it’s continuing to ignore them.