The world has just participated in the largest global experiment in education. Many parents have been fearful their children will be forever ‘behind’. They have administered an online learning system and curriculum with which they are unfamiliar, and many have continued to work throughout lockdown, all in addition to the already monumental task of parenting itself. The government shutdown of schools has forced pupils and parents to be judged against institutional standards in an environment (home) that couldn’t be less conducive to its standards and mores; put simply, home is not school.
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