Parents have limited choices for schooling during the pandemic, and now parents are thinking more about home schooling for their children.
Parents have limited choices for schooling during the pandemic, and now parents are thinking more about home schooling for their children.
SCHOOLS ARE NOW EITHERREOPENING - PARTIALLY REOPENING- OR STAYING SHUT ALTOGETHER.THAT HAS SOME NOW THINKINGABOUT HOMESCHOOLING FOR THELONG-TERM.SCRIPPS REPORTER MAYA RODRIGUEZINTRODUCES US TO ONE MOM...WHO HAS BECOME AN EXPERT ABOUTWHAT IT TAKES AND IS SHARINGTHE LESSON SHE'S LEARNED.IT MAY LOOK LIKE A REGULARHOUSE FROM THE OUTSIDE((NATS)) BUT INSIDE MEGHANBUSELLI'S BUSTLING HOME((4050)) MEGHAN BUSELLI,HOMESCHOOLING PARENT: "I'LLHAVE LANDON WHO'S EIGHT.SAWYER WHO'S SIX AND LEVI WHO'SFIVE AND THEN I HAVE TWO LITTLEGIRLS THAT I FIT IN THERESOMEHOW." ONE ROOM LOOKSJUST LIKE A REGULAR CLASSROOM.((3938)) MEGHAN BUSELLI,HOMESCHOOLING PARENT: "I HAD MYDEGREE IN ELEMENTARYEDUCATION." A DEGREE SHEINITIALLY THOUGHT SHE WOULDUSE BY GOING BACK TO TEACHIN THE CLASSROOM.BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR HEROLDEST CHILD TO GO TO SCHOOL((3945)) MEGHAN BUSELLI,HOMESCHOOLING PARENT: "THE AGEOF FIVE CAME SUPER FAST --QUICKER THAN I THOUGHT -- AND IWASN'T READY TO LET GO OF OURTIME." SO, SHE DECIDED TOHOMESCHOOL HER CHILDRENINSTEAD.A DECISION THAT - AT THE TIME -SHE HAD NO IDEA WOULD END UPATTRACTING ATTENTION FROMAROUND THE COUNTRY.((4128)) MEGHAN BUSELLI,HOMESCHOOLING PARENT: "I THINKPARENTS THOUGHT THAT, YOU KNOW,WE NEED TO THINK OF DIFFERENTOPTIONS FOR OUR CHILDREN."WHICH IS HOW MEGHAN - VIASOCIAL MEDIA - ENDED UP IN THEROLE OF HOMESCHOOLING HELPER -TO PARENTS LOOKING TO DO THESAME IN THE WAKE OFCOVID-19.((4259)) MEGHAN BUSELLI,HOMESCHOOLING PARENT: "THEYSAY, 'OH, WELL, I DON'T HAVE ADEGREE IN THAT.'
AND I SAY,'YOU KNOW WHAT?
THINK OF YOURGRANDMOTHER'S FAVORITE RECIPETHAT YOU USE YEAR AFTER YEAR.DID SHE GO TO CULINARY SCHOOL?NO.'
SO, I ALWAYS SAY THAT YOUKNOW AND YOU'RE MORE QUALIFIEDIN THIS THAN YOU KNOW AND IF IDIDN'T HAVE MYDEGREE I COULD STILL DO IT."((GFX GOES HERE)) IN THE YEARRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC ABOUT2.5 MILLION STUDENTS WEREHOMESCHOOLED IN THE U.S.MEGHAN OFFERS PARENTS TIPS ONHOW TO DO IT SUCH ASCHALKBOARD OR BEHIND A DESKSHE'S LEARNED IT'S LESS ABOUTTRYING TO MIMIC A CLASSROOMAND MORE ABOUT BEING FLEXIBLE--LESS IS MORE WHEN IT COMES TOLESSON PLANNING - FOCUS MORE ONCONCEPTS, NOT BUSY WORK --SHE SAYS SHE KNOWS HER KIDSHOMESCHOOLING IS HELPINGSTRETCH OUT THEIR CHILDHOODSJUST THEM SEEING HOW WE CARRYON A HOUSEHOLD, HOW WE CARRY ONBEING THE GLUE THAT STICKSPENNSYLVANIA, I'M MAYARODRIGUEZ.IT CAN BE FRUSTRATING TO SCROLL
Rochester buses ran some routes on Monday ahead of the first day of Rochester classes on Wednesday. KIMT got an inside look at the..