We have a part our school day dedicated to tutoring and reteaching. Every kid deserves to go to a school where they are always safe and never bored. There is a tremendous amount of intellectual labor that goes into good teaching. Every great teacher knows this and we think that in order to be a great school, we should provide and protect our teachers’ time to do it. We will not be back in the same building until next school year, but the school is not the building. We aren’t safe from the world, but we can feel the safety of teachers and classmates celebrating our successes and learning from our errors.

You can’t help but wonder: if we’re forced for an entire year to forego the in-person benefits of these practices, what happens when life returns to normal? ​ It’s basic human nature to pursue positional scarcity, and to do whatever it takes to compete for it. The virus won’t change that.