Covid-19 and Education

Covid-19 has a negative impact on education, due to the fact that going to school in person versus attending school online being very different from each other. For kids that are in kindergarten through 6 grades and special education students are affected the most , because they are not yet fully independent to learn stuff on their own. That's where the parents comes in, to help their kids learn. But the problem is some parents still have to work during this pandemic, which leaves them with a difficult choice of either staying home to help their kids in school or going to work to earn money so they can buy the necessary items to survive. Another aspects of it is that some parents have more than two children, because of Covid-19 they cannot hire a babysitter, which means they can't go to work. 

Also the single mom or dad who has more than two children in different grades, this will be a chaotic situation because they can do three different things at once. Since older students works as a due date it lives parents barely any time for teaching because he or she has to rush to make sure all the kids work gets done. From what I've seen so far on online classes, students usually spends half an hour to an hour talking to the teacher and they have to do the rest of the work on their own. If they don't understand something they either have to wait the next day to ask the teacher or wait till their parents comes from work. All of this is time-consuming, and to me I think it's slowing down the education process or in other words if the student could have learned something in 5 minutes now it could take them up to 15 minutes or more. As stated in the article by Simon Burgess, "Going to school is the best public policy tool available to raise skills. While school time can be fun and can raise social skills and social awareness, from an economic point of view the primary point of being in school is that it increases a child." I think we all can agree to this point because we learn a lot going to school. Not just going to class listening to the teacher but having human interactions can make us learn something different everyday. Overall we see all the negative aspects Covid-19ovid-19 have on our education.

charter school

      In the article "charter Schools" which mainly was comparing some of the differences between charter schools and public schools. For some teachers, they choose to work at a charter school because there are more independent and able to prepare their own lessons compared to public schools where they have to follow instructions. Another man reason why teachers choose that type of school is that they have a limited class size, and not everyone is accepted to attend those types of school. A smaller class size means less work that has to be graded which means the teacher possesses more time to prepare his or her lesson plans. The downside of the charter school is that teachers are not making as much money as to those in public schools. Because of that reason teachers tend to leave after a couple of months especially the best teachers who tend to go to a school that pays better preferably public Schools. 
           Another major point this article raises is that going to charter school doesn't mean the students are smarter then the students that attend a public school, they are equally the same. One part from the article that caught my attention is that "unlike, other public schools, charter schools can be shut down if their students are found to be underperforming." I think this will bring to bear many pressures on students to learn and perform because the charter school doesn't want to get close, so the sole option they have is to force the children to perform best on tests. This can lead to students that are underperforming to be expelled from the school. It could also be the reason why not many students get accepted in charter schools and also not many students last due to the amount of pressure there are facing, those students tend to go to public schools. Many of these students feel like they can not take this pressure anymore so they left with the decision to drop out of school. 
       Even one of the nation's most successful charter school network (KIP) Knowledge Is Power, where only forty-four percent of their students tends to scarcely complete a bachelor's degree, while fifty-six percent either didn't bother attending college or graduate from college. One question I liked to ask is: Would you rather send your children to a charter school or public schools? Well, the answer is based on the children abilities or characteristics, because not everyone can handle the pressure.