We also have a fascinating piece by Lyz Lenz, a writer who was home-schooled with her seven siblings as a child. She interviewed five of her brothers and sisters, along with her parents, about how they feel, decades later, about having been home-schooled. The majority of the families we featured chose to home-school before the coronavirus pandemic. In open-ended responses, several families who didn’t home-school before the pandemic were surprised to find that, post-shutdown, their children seemed to do better outside a traditional school environment. “He’s really blossomed with home-schooling!”It’s far too soon to know whether the desire to home-school will remain in these parents after the threat of a deadly virus no longer looms.

Source: New York Times August 18, 2020 20:32 UTC