Homeschooling In The Age Of The Coronavirus

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Right now a lot of parents have taken on a new responsibility: homeschool teacher. Many feel like they have no idea what they're doing. Sam talks with parents in all different kinds of circumstances trying to make it work.

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0:00.0	Can you say what your name is?
0:01.4	Felix.
0:02.4	How old are you?
0:03.6	Five years.
0:04.4	I'm five in a quarter and a half.
0:07.4	Um, do you know what the coronavirus is?
0:13.2	The coronavirus makes people sick.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	What's different right now?
0:18.6	Hmm.
0:19.6	Hmm.
0:21.6	It's okay.
0:22.2	Like, have you gone to school in the past week?
0:24.6	Yeah.
0:25.6	I'm...
0:26.6	I'm...
0:28.6	I'm just sad.
0:30.0	You're too sad?
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	Do you want to try doing this later?
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:34.0	Let me take a couple of deep breaths for a while.
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