Is Kindergarten Optional This Year?
Posted on AllSides August 6th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
Long before COVID-19 had settled upon the globe, my daughter began covering her ears whenever I tried to explain something to her. Overexplain, really. She would ask how to spell banana and I would ask her what letter she thought it started with, and her hands would clap up. She’d ask for two crackers for her little sister and three for herself, and I’d ask how many that was altogether. Clap. I didn’t love it—actually, I hated it—but I understood it. I could hear what my daughter was hearing, the...
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