What if “distance learning” meant learning from a distance of at least six feet from all adults? Or better yet, sixty! What if the “summer slide” was actually a slide? A tall, scary, risk-taking slide that a child creates from a tree limb without the help of an adult? What if our children actually learned through their own movements and played outdoors and followed their own interests, without a curriculum or a distance learning plan for the entire day? If every cloud has a silver lining, is the silver lining of the coronavirus the shutdown of schools and over-scheduled family time? 

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