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My Teenagers Can Thrive Later. Right Now I Just Want Them to Survive.
True empathy is hard to find in coronatimes. How can anyone relate to what we’re all experiencing right now? I get an ounce of comfort from reading the experiences of people who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, but they didn’t have to endure Zoom.
In 2006, writer Hannah Collins didn’t have Zoom either, but her experience with a year of remote learning still comforts me as a parent of three teenagers enduring their own terrible online high school experience. In “I Did Remote Learning for a Year in 2006 and It Was a 2020-Style Hot Mess,” Collins explains that through a combination of a “sassy maths teacher,” naps, and eventually getting to go back to school in person, she was able to finish high school as one of the top students in her year.
