Hey Michael, The pandemic won't change schools any more than they've changed the remainder of our production-based regime. CEOs want their workers back on the job and teachers want their students likewise. The thing they both have in common is that both look to the current paradigm to maintain job security (particularly in that they know that someone else will do it better if they let that go). Schools have an even greater degree of reinforcement (of the status quo) in that it's nearly impossible to be a baby sitter without physically having the baby (and THAT is the primary job to be done here and not education). Love your stuff - always stimulating. Take care.
I don't disagree, but what seems different in both sectors is that currently it's hard to attract employees so they have some leverage and schools are losing parents who are opting out. I'll be curious to see how long that dynamic persists. The longer, the more the change ultimately even if the trad'l institutions themselves don't budge
Hey Michael, The pandemic won't change schools any more than they've changed the remainder of our production-based regime. CEOs want their workers back on the job and teachers want their students likewise. The thing they both have in common is that both look to the current paradigm to maintain job security (particularly in that they know that someone else will do it better if they let that go). Schools have an even greater degree of reinforcement (of the status quo) in that it's nearly impossible to be a baby sitter without physically having the baby (and THAT is the primary job to be done here and not education). Love your stuff - always stimulating. Take care.
I don't disagree, but what seems different in both sectors is that currently it's hard to attract employees so they have some leverage and schools are losing parents who are opting out. I'll be curious to see how long that dynamic persists. The longer, the more the change ultimately even if the trad'l institutions themselves don't budge