An eighth grade student in New York City, has written a op ed in The New York Times and I cannot believe they ran. Thirteen year old very Neat Mints says that she's learning more with distance learning like at home, than she did when her school was open. Now. She says that before the coronavirus lockdown, she had to put up with other students talking out of turn every day. Uh, they destroyed classroom materials, openly disrespected to teachers. They blurted
out answers during tests. She says that other students regularly pushed and kicked and hit each other, and that was life in her middle school every single day. Now she wrote about the problems was so called collaborative learning, which she says accounts for eighty percent of classroom work in her school. It's done in groups. Dedicated students have to try to make the unmotivated kids finish assignments and behave But distance learning has allowed ms Mints to take control
of her own studies. She can now focus on her work and is not being held back by the loosers. Miss Mints, I want to thank you. You have single handedly explained why so many parents in New York and in other Blue cities want school choice. They want to say in where they send their kids to school, so they won't have to put up with what You've been forced to put up with every day until the coronavirus saved you. How about that