So, from the OP NYT article, Covid is causing the schools and student learning to suffer. I question if the suffering is necessary: For Covid, I'm old enough

So, from the OP NYT article, Covid is causing the schools and student learning to suffer. I question if the suffering is necessary: For Covid, I'm old enough to be at risk of death if I got Covid, but I've had both shots of the Moderna vaccine and also its booster. I may be wrong, but with these shots I f'get about Covid -- I assume I can't get it or transmit it. Again I would hope that others would do the same. Again I may be wrong but I assume that then we could all f'get about Covid, masks, mandates, lock downs, closings, etc. at work, in restaurants, airplanes, schools, etc. But, for education, hmm .... Dad was pretty good at that, got about the best Master's in education available when he was in college. Then one of his points was that could get a good education in a one room school house with all grades in the one room with just one teacher. One of the lessons I got from a lot of years in school and some years of teaching is "Learning is not a spectator sport". That is, learning happens mostly from work between the ears of the learner. To me, these are very special, especially good, times for learning -- we have the Internet. Darned near anything anyone might want to learn is on the Internet as text or videos, including in organized full courses. I know a family with three kids, 10, 7, and 2. They go to a private school, three short days a week and then study at home. It appears that Covid has not hurt their education and that they are doing fine. At the school, each mother volunteers one day a month. Since there are only about 12 school days a month, it takes only 12 students to have a mother there each school day. I would hope that parents could do well with their kids educations through (a) reading and writing essays, (b) math through graphing data, compound interest, exponententials, areas, and volumes, (c) other topics such as literature, geography, history, music, etc. Then somewhere about age 10-12, the kids should be able to do well learning, with some guidance and standardized testing, essentially on their own from materials on the Internet or, in some cases, from books. Uh, some kids, even in some of the worst schools, somehow do really well learning basketball, baseball, football, soccer, auto mechanics, and more -- properly motivated they should also be able to learn chemistry, biology, calculus, physics, computer programming, etc.