Pandemic pods?

Have you heard about pandemic pods as a reaction to school shutdowns?

Families pull together groups of students (typically four to 10 or so), find a space that can accommodate the group (typically within one of the families’ homes), and then hire a teacher to teach these co-quarantined students for several hours, several days a week.

For some families, this will serve as their primary mode of schooling this fall. For others, it will supplement what their child’s public or private school is providing online during the year.

Sounds great to me. Anything that serves to weaken the public education establishment’s grip is a good thing.