When asked to use the word “why" in a sentence the boy wrote “Why do I need an education?”
What’s fascinated me about this is that I thought only the adults were, in the wake of the pandemic, asking the big questions.
Students, however, after a year-and-a-half of uncertainty, are questioning a lot of things as well. Especially at the middle school level, where they would be testing the limits even in a pandemic-less year.
And many of them struggled with remote learning and may not have even signed on at all. Being back in the building then, on some levels, is all new again.
Perhaps one reason we need an education is to learn how to learn once more.