Instead, she might formalize an ad hoc group her son and a couple of his friends threw together in March, when students were first sent home. Is the risk and weirdness of a socially distanced classroom worth it, especially if there's no gym class? And what if a lot of time is spent repeating the online lessons not every kid paid peak attention to last spring? Evans says she may not send him back "if it's a whole lot of reviewing and handwashing and still potentially unsafe." But for her son, an 8th grader, she's less sure. She thinks she will probably have her daughter attend whatever online/offline hybrid the local high school puts together, because it has (or had?) a lot of specialized classes her daughter wants to take. But now they are willingly taking the reins of their children's education."Īmy Evans, a writer with two kids in Montclair, New Jersey, is one of them. "Parents were forced into COVID homeschooling last spring. "These pandemic pods are the ultimate in parent-driven education innovation," says Kerry McDonald, author of Unschooled.
In other words: Everything is up for re-imagining. (That last one is a big issue in the Facebook chats.) And they may or may not strive to include a kid or kids from a different income level, race, or neighborhood, to create more equity. Their parents may or may not pitch in with the teaching. They may tune in together to the school district's online lessons, or they may choose a totally different homeschooling curriculum. They may hire a tutor, a babysitter, or a bona fide teacher. These may be kids who were going to the same school already, or they may be neighbors, cousins, or play-group buddies.
Fordham Institute.Ī pod is a small group of families who approve of each other's quarantining habits and whose kids will spend the next few weeks, months, or God-knows-how-long learning together away from the school house. The punch suddenly getting the most play is the "pandemic pod." "Pods went from, 'Oh, isn't that interesting?' to ubiquitous in about 72 hours," says Robert Pondiscio, a former Bronx public school teacher who now works at the Thomas B. Keep them home, and what about socialization? Homeschool? Unschool? Let them watch cartoons and learn the entire ACME product line? "There's a negative consequence for each possibility," Gesaman sighs. They have 'potential' plans, but the bottom line is that there's really not a 100% good choice." Send the kids to school? There's a health risk. Our school hasn't given us any idea of what they're going for. "A lot of people are on the fence about a lot of different things. She was talking about the upcoming school year, and what parents would do with their kids. "It's a big mess," says Hollie Gesaman, a mother of two young children in Streetsboro, Ohio.
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