The thing is, these schools in some cases do not charge a lot more than the funding allocated to the local public schools. What they do have obviously is incre

The thing is, these schools in some cases do not charge a lot more than the funding allocated to the local public schools. What they do have obviously is incredibly flexibility and there really was no option in folks mind to cancel all in person learning. So they just do everything they can, small pods / cohorts, split schedules for recess, split day schedules even and all the other steps. So I wouldn't say money, but the time and decision velocity was there. Teachers WERE going to be teaching, and the admin (with teachers and parent council) basically said, how do we make this work. The secondary win was that this let parents work from home! So they could stay home in peace and quiet and avoid spreading stuff around. I'm seriously curious what the larger model of learn from home was in public schools? How do these parents work and progress vis a vis their colleagues who send their kids to in-person learning? The folks I know with kids in school actually did very well career wise, they were 100% on it for remote work, got lots done without commute or kids or if on an in-person job were 100% there (usually with an N95 mask if school demanded that). If anything, if folks were struggling you'd think in person would be even MORE critical for both parents and kids. Note that my local suburban public school has TONS of field space outside to set up some tents and outside classrooms. Some links as to what this looks like sometimes: https://www.greenschoolyards.org/covid-learn-outside https://www.greenschoolyards.org/covid-learn-outside