WFH is, like other disrupted parts of the economy, still “in process” towards some presently uncertain future. WFH has some of the same players as LFH…parents play roles in both areas.
School’s childcare function provides many different needs, education being the one we tend to recognize as most important, but if it wasn’t clear before that schools provide essential adult supervision for kids, it’s clear now to most parents.
However, if a parent is WFH, does that necessarily replace the school’s adult supervision role, thus creating more LFH children? That would vary by the parent’s circumstances, as well as by numerous additional factors specific to particular families. Are grandparents or other caregivers in the house, or available? For example.
Presumably, there’s not going to be a one-size-fits-all approach: schools, teachers, students, parents, and employers are going to need a great deal of flexibility. One needs to also note that LFH tools are continually advancing, and are likely to, at some point, provide more individually focused learning opportunities/ just in time learning/ flipped classrooms for LFH.
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