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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, because even if we get a vaccine, if you listen, it would not be 100% effective and would take a year to rollout.  We will probably be dealing with COVID in schools through the class of 2022 graduating.

But mostly, it’s like 9/11, but going on for years. There has been a whole paradigm shift in education.

Some kids do very well in DL and now that there, won’t go back.

Parents with money are finding creative ways to educate their kids.  If pods work, parents won’t want to go back.  They will homeschool in a small group with a teacher.

People are now starting to realize the demand to fill educational gaps is huge, and I think we will see new businesses and new ideas in education and supporting education. A few will likely be very good and change the educational landscape permanently.

But mostly, people have lost confidence in public schools.  Even if FCPS, there is a growing movement for vouchers.  And it’s going to get launder as people start paying tutors and pod teacher to do the job the public schools are supposed to.

I think we will see a national demand to give parents their local educational allotment per pupil, and let them choose public, private, parochial, one of the new virtual HSs that will start popping up, use it to pay a pod teacher, use it for homeschool curriculum and enrichment, including things like private language classes and fine arts.

I think we will see expanded opportunities where fine arts, strong IB, voc tech focused, immersion, STEM focused, etc charter or private schools will take the vouchers, and maybe charge parents a few hundred dollars a month above them for expanded resources and smaller classes.

It’s Betsy DeVos’s wet dream, but it could be very could for kids from affluent families.  The kids would get left behind when the higher kids leave, not so much.

I know I would love to put my kid in a smaller IB private or charter.  And since FCPS can’t figure out how to open schools, they should step aside and let kids attend places that can. [/quote]

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