Supervised School

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Look, I am all for keeping schools closed for in-person learning and activities right now. But I know there are cases where parents aren't available to stay home with their kids all day as they do their online learning, or maybe the kid would even benefit from the structure of just going somewhere else to do their schoolwork in a more structured environment. In my opinion, the solution for this is to have as many students learn from home as possible, leaving ample space throughout all schools to distribute anyone who does need to be on-site.

The school district where I live is 100% virtual through the end of the year, which I really appreciate, and I was happy to see a program announced today for students to attend a full-day, on-site, supervised program to complete their online learning. But I was dismayed to see it's almost $3000 per attendee! That's just not fair.

I'm not a parent, and I'm thankful that I don't have to make these kinds of decisions and trade-offs myself, but if you are in a situation where all adults in the household have to go out to work and nobody can supervise your children doing online learning, it may also be a struggle to afford $3000 per child for someone else to provide this service.