What ever happened to the micro school experiment of the Covid days?

[Anonymous]

Did anyone keep the small pods going? If so, why? If not, why not? Minus the Covid, does anyone believe that they could offer a niche alternative in the near future? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t this the future of homeschooling? States giving parents direct funding to allow their kids to enroll in pods for full time schooling?

[Anonymous]

I think that micro schools make it even more obvious to parents when kids are ahead or behind and which kids are getting more resources. It's one thing to be ahead and underserved in a big overcrowded school but feel like no one else is getting what they need. But to be paying for a group of 2-3 kids and realize that one kid (who's also your friend or neighbor) is getting way more than their share of resources because they're on the struggle bus probably made microschool unsustainable for parents.

I know a lot of people who stuck with permanent homeschooling and virtual schooling, but no one who stuck with micro schooling past the end of 20-21. All of the little yard/advertisement signs for random micro school startups that kept popping up through 2022 seem to have finally disappeared for good.

[Anonymous]

Most were child care using the regular school curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this the future of homeschooling? States giving parents direct funding to allow their kids to enroll in pods for full time schooling?

I’m in a state that has universal vouchers and I’m seeing this. Microschools will directly advertise that they take the voucher money. I know a couple kids in them and they were homeschooled before joining the micro school.

The families that I knew who formed learning pods during Covid have all returned to public school. Those were creative solutions to allow both parents to continue working outside the home while their young kids were in remote school. I don’t think they ever intended to continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that micro schools make it even more obvious to parents when kids are ahead or behind and which kids are getting more resources. It's one thing to be ahead and underserved in a big overcrowded school but feel like no one else is getting what they need. But to be paying for a group of 2-3 kids and realize that one kid (who's also your friend or neighbor) is getting way more than their share of resources because they're on the struggle bus probably made microschool unsustainable for parents.

I know a lot of people who stuck with permanent homeschooling and virtual schooling, but no one who stuck with micro schooling past the end of 20-21. All of the little yard/advertisement signs for random micro school startups that kept popping up through 2022 seem to have finally disappeared for good.

lol ok. Sorry you are mad that other kids get help - some day your kid may need more than “his share” of the resources.

The incredible selfishness of parents never ceases to amaze. I bet you were crying about how schools needed to stay closed during COVID yet also crying about how your pod was unfair to your “advanced” child.