I have figured out the perfect solution to the Covid crisis: the President/Secretary of Ed/State Governors should declare a mandatory shut down of every single school and sports team K through college! Everyone just take one big gap year---read books, learn how to knit, take up an instrument, hone a new skill. Everything completely closed for one year, then at this time next year we just pick up where we left off! No one misses ANYTHING....nor will there be any compromised learning. No one gets ahead of anyone else in school or sports. Kids won't miss Proms or graduations.
Teachers will get slight pay cuts for one year, as will college staff and faculty, and perhaps some government relief for the schools and universities. With greatly reduced operating expenses, schools may not take as much of a hit as we think. AND, best of all, the huge army of high school and college aged kids can provide babysitting services for all those with young children so the parents can actually work!
Obviously this is pretty tongue in cheek, but my dad came up with the idea and the more I thought about it.....even though it's not perfect, it seems no more crazy than some of the other things happening now we never could have imagined (like entire public school districts being shut down)
Teachers will get slight pay cuts for one year, as will college staff and faculty, and perhaps some government relief for the schools and universities. With greatly reduced operating expenses, schools may not take as much of a hit as we think. AND, best of all, the huge army of high school and college aged kids can provide babysitting services for all those with young children so the parents can actually work!
Obviously this is pretty tongue in cheek, but my dad came up with the idea and the more I thought about it.....even though it's not perfect, it seems no more crazy than some of the other things happening now we never could have imagined (like entire public school districts being shut down)
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