In the nineties when I was in second or third grade I spent little less than a month attending school from home, recovering from surgery. This being the ninteti

In the nineties when I was in second or third grade I spent little less than a month attending school from home, recovering from surgery. This being the ninteties we didn’t have this new-fangeled internet at home. One a week a teacher would come by for a few hours and talk about school and what they were up to, and hand over some assignments and talk about what I had done so far. As I recall it I spend a lot less time on the assignments than I would in school and I learned most of what the other kinds learned (the rest was easily learned when I was back in school) - but this obviously only worked because mum was a stay at home mum and it was early enough that she could teach me. Most of early schooling is about warehousing and training kids to behave so that adults can be around them and parents can do that in most cases. The real issues isn’t that the kids don’t learn, it is that they end up staying with the grandparents and infecting them.