At the park on a school day
Author's note: If you are a parent who has concerns about your child's safety in face-to-face public school, then I encourage you to read this article about an alternative which may help ease fears of both you and your child. On a Friday morning at the start of the school year, my 14-year-old was swinging at the park rather than discussing the associative property of multiplication in his algebra class. I made no comment to him about his absence from class, in fact, I drove him to the park myself. For this year and maybe for the entire four of his high school career, my son may spend a lot of days outside rather than cooped up in an overcrowded classroom in an institutionalized setting. We aren't homeschooling. But he is attending public high school through business innovation which has figured out that some families want other options to deliver education to their kids. Across the country, hybrid and online models are on the rise both in public school districts a...