The Chinese Coronavirus is cause for lots of reflection on a lot of things. One of those things is what people are saying about having to have their children home with them because the schools have closed for weeks and in one case (Kansas) for the rest of the school year. It is sad to me that people view this as a burden. I understand all the economic reasons why this is difficult and I have some empathy, in most cases, for that. But the idea that having ones children around is a burden is completely foreign to Lorena and I. Why even have kids if you do not want them around.

The corollary to the above issue is hearing that people do not feel equipped to teach their children and that a trained teacher is required to do that properly. That makes me crazy. The very thing that helped our kids to start to succeed is to get them away from “trained teachers” if what one means by that is teachers trained at teacher education programs in colleges and universities across the USA. My honest belief is that kind of thinking is both selfish and lazy.