The pandemic has hurt a lot of children's education, but it's also done one other thing that was long overdue - it has left govt education departments with a much smaller role to play than previously, as more parents begin to look for and accept alternate paths to learning.
Most parents still look forward to the reopening of schools, I'm sure, but their expectations from the schools are bound to have shifted during the pandemic. The most important of these is the sense that physical infrastructure is only a small part of how children learn.
A second shift is the recognition that schools are not the only place to learn. They've always seemed like the natural place to learn, to a lot of people, but if that natural order is disturbed as violently as it is now, there's no choice but to start looking for alternatives.
Schools are trapped by uniformity. Children learn in diverse ways, so the uniformity of a school can only work for some children. What we need to do, instead, is to reimagine learning institutions with a deliberate focus on learning in diverse ways. That would a real school.
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