Erika Beery
416:25 - 417:03
“On page 9, the part about incorporating correspondence programs into a broader brick-and-mortar framework, assuming that the post-pandemic research results regarding the efficacy of education when brick-and-mortar schools suddenly had to go online and virtual without preparation or curriculum that was designed for that setting, that that would apply to the homeschool setting is just not applicable.”
- Speaker
- Erika Beery
- Timestamp
- 416:25 – 417:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
From the transcript
Some of these points seem to threaten parent choice and school choice. And I would like to encourage you to defend these rights and not try to take them away from anyone, especially not those— taking those rights from one group and not others. On page 9, the part about incorporating correspondence programs into a broader brick-and-mortar framework, assuming that the post-pandemic research results regarding the efficacy of education when brick-and-mortar schools suddenly had to go online and virtual without preparation or curriculum that was designed for that setting, that that would apply to the homeschool setting is just not applicable. Those are two fundamentally separate populations and settings, and the results from one just can't be applied to the other.
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