The virus has disrupted: - K-12 - bars - cities - retail - sports - hotels - airlines - offices - colleges - subways - concerts - medicine - Hollywood - immigration - conferences - supply chains - meat packing - movie theaters - aircraft carriers Do you think it all snaps back?
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In sociology, there is a concept called "latent function"—pretty obvious. Schools don't just teach facts/skills (manifest function); they socialize and babysit. Shock makes latent function explicit: and you might be tempted to assume manifest function was all people want. Nope.
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The coronavirus makes some things that anyone who studied the institution knew kinda explicit to most everyone. Okay. It could be an opportunity to reshuffle or jettison some of the latent functions. But it's not true that the latent functions are irrelevant or unnecessary.
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THIS. Especially if u have a special needs kiddo.
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Let's linger on this for a sec. The key is that you don't need 100% of parents to change their mind. Once even say 30% of parents categorize K-12 as "glorified babysitting", you can factor it into [a] distance learning for advanced math/science/etc via iPad and [b] childcare.
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