https://oldsite.awaldorfjourney.com/2020/03/our-covid-19-story-so-far/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-covid-19-story-so-far experiences, resources and advice from a Waldorf teacher on the journey Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://oldsite.awaldorfjourney.com/2020/03/our-covid-19-story-so-far/#comment-11847 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:10:12 +0000 https://www.awaldorfjourney.com/?p=20681#comment-11847 I’ve thought of so many of thee same questions you listed. I just talked to my husband about how grateful I am that our work and family situation are such that I can be very active in this homeschool experiment, monitoring, engaging, correcting, and explaining mistakes as F goes through each lesson. He’s getting the kind of one-on-one instruction he could never have in class. And it’s kind of wonderful and enjoyable for us both (right now, on day 2–let’s touch bases again in a few weeks!). But why is it so? Because I and my husband can give him that attention. We’re not distracted by worries about our income, doing it as single parents, etc. My heart breaks for those who are. And even as I say “Wow, F could really make big advances in his skills during this,” I do fret about those friends and classmates who are going to fall behind–through absolutely no fault of theirs or their parents. I was raised by a single mom with no family nearby; had this happened when I was in third grade, she would never have been able to stop working or hire a babysitter or devote her days to correcting my spelling or talking through my math mistakes. There’s no question this time is going to heighten disparities and inequalities, and that thought is definitely something that would keep one up at 3am.

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