Several months ago, if a person asked about homeschool, the term carried a very different connotation from what it does today. As something that began as a fringe movement among church organizations to combine education with religion, homeschooling has been thrust into the mainstream when the coronavirus drastically altered the face of education this spring.
The same goes for distance-learning, educational co-ops, pods, and other educational buzzwords parents have had to learn in a startlingly short span of time.
Since March, when COVID-19 closed businesses and shuttered classrooms, parents and teachers became responsible for making critical decisions about their children’s education in ways the country has never had to do before. When schools first closed, overwhelmed parents took to the internet, posting about the difficulties of athome learning as well as appreciation posts in praise of the teachers who had previously been responsible for the welfare of their school-aged children.
