Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

Parents are arriving at creative solutions here in Austin, Texas, as a consequence of not wanting to send their children back to school this fall due to COVID and with many leaders saying right now that opening is impossible.  

Local parents express feeling left out of the national conversation on school re-opening so they're taking the problem head-on by setting up what they call "parents pods" run by teachers or tutors via an organized form of distance learning that allow children to socialize with age-peers this fall. Equity issues, of course, prevail.

I love the subtitle here because I'm proud to know one of these "rogue mamas" and her family, Dr. Emma Mancha-Sumners. For every family, no doubt, this shift in life as they've known it will continue to be disorienting and involve great sacrifices.

Go to this link to learn about the Austin Independent School District's re-opening plans.

-Angela Valenzuela




Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

‘An unregulated band of rogue mamas’ tries to figure out what to do when schools are closed, jobs are open and child care is nonexistent
 July 22, 2020

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