In recent weeks, many parents have realized the difficult truth about school this fall because of COVID-19. Hoping for a better 【小题1】, parents around U.S. have started organizing “pandemic (流行病) pods”, or home schooling pods, for the fall, in which groups of 3 to 10 students learn together in homes under the guidance of the children’s parents or a hired teacher.

For parents who can organize and 【小题2】 them, pods seem like an easy choice. “I don’t believe that the online courses for that age group are 【小题3】. Kids at this age really need that multimodal sensory learning (多模式感官学习).” one parent said.

These pods could 【小题4】 families with a schooling choice that feels safe—yet also allows kids to have fun and build social skills. However, it also has unavoidable shortcomings.

Depending on how the pods are set up, they may offer parents break. But given that pods can be 【小题5】, complicated to organize and self-selecting, it is possible that they are most popular among wealthy families, experts say, and may 【小题6】 educational inequality.

Another 【小题7】 about pods is that families may not know how to minimize Covid risks. Pods shouldn’t have more than five kids 【小题8】, said Saskia Popescu, an infection prevention expert. When you add together the teacher and all of the kids’ family members, a seemingly small pod ends up including dozens of people, and the more people in it, the greater the 【小题9】 for coronavirus exposure (接触). Furthermore, families in learning pods shouldn’t socialize with people outside the pod unless they wear masks and 【小题10】 socially distant, Dr. Popescu said. Pods should have clear rules on wearing masks and washing hands.

Children are our future, and it’s up to us to arm them with the tools to succeed. Sadly, today’s children are being 【小题1】with more dangerous tools like weapons, drugs and gangs. Once a 【小题2】peaceful environment, many schoolyards of today are becoming unsafe to both students and teachers.

Home schools are 【小题3】 to give you choices. Home schooling provides top-quality education, 【小题4】, and freedom to create your own schedule. At Heritage Home School we believe the choice should be yours.

Home schooling information is becoming【小题5】available across our nation thanks in part to modern technology. A recent study by the ITBS (Iowa Tests of Basic Skills) and TAP(Tests of Achievement and Proficiency) shows us that students of home schools do particularly well when compared with the nationwide 【小题6】. In every subject at every grade level, students of home schooling scored obviously higher than those in public and private schools.

If you’re new to home schooling, you may be asking yourself, “will home schools really work for my children?”

Fact: A nationwide study using a casual 【小题7】 of 1,516 families found students of home schooling to be scoring, on average, at or above the 80th percentile(百分位数) in all areas on 【小题8】 achievement test.

Note: The national average on the achievement tests is the 50th percentile.

The staff at Heritage Home School,【小题9】, brings 65 years of experience in home schooling curriculum. We’ve placed students in the top2% of the nation in math and many are successfully moving on to college.

One study found that of the home schooled adults, 0% were unemployed, 0% were on welfare and 94% said home education prepared them to 【小题10】persons.

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Home schooling is hard even for the best of us

Many parents have toyed with home schooling. The idea is associated with images of children and parents sitting at the kitchen table, solving the mysteries of maths, science and languages 【小题1】 of traditional education.

This week, parents have encountered a harder reality — not home schooling in the usual 【小题2】, but enforced schooling-for-home. Kitchen tables piled with books and bowls; frustrated parents trying to remember how to do improper fractions (可约分数) while taking part in a video conference with work colleagues; fights over laptops as children insist they need to log on to online lessons — such 【小题3】 will have been repeated in households across the world.

Home learning, as more usually 【小题4】, is not a new idea. The modern home-school movement emerged in the 1970s, 【小题5】 by the bikes of John Holt, an American teacher and education writer. He advised parents to fit the curriculum to the child’s interests, not the other way around. The most recent 【小题6】 suggest that close to 60,000 children are home schooled in England, for reasons including mental health issues and special educational needs. Some parents have given up on what they see as a(n) 【小题7】 “one-size fits all” education system. Educationalists, including Britain’s Sir Ken Robinson, have complained that schools’ need to follow strict curriculums can harm children’s natural creativity.

For parents in today’s health crisis, technology is proving a lifeline. School by Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams or Zoom has been hugely popular to keep children focused as well as 【小题8】 as class. For younger children, various British celebrities (名流) are offering their services to help with lessons in maths, English as well as history.

How best to make it work? Experts say children need a clear structure. They should rise, breakfast and work according to a clear timetable in line with normal schooling, 【小题9】 studying in a place without distractions. Make the most of “live” online classes, and additional work and resources, that schools are offering. Allow time for physical exercise, and family time - and arguably less homework after studying finishes. Above all, parents should take a deep breath and keep calm. One 【小题10】 lesson many home workers-cum-home schoolers will draw from today’s crisis is this: teachers will never again have to prove that they are worth it.