Children are weary, confused, and overwhelmed. They need a complete shift next school year. For those trapped in the public schools, at the very least they need school leadership to consider the following.

Playing outdoors

Extended playtime

Lots of interaction with others

The impulse will be to push the kids to make up all the ground they have lost. That is not what they need.

They need joy. They need exercise. They need friendships. They need laughter. They need nature.

Schools should scrap whatever they have and completely rethink education for next year.

If you push these exhausted, bewildered children next year in order to meet some kind of artificial set of standards, you are making a huge mistake. The best thing you can do for their long-term well-being is help them be a happy human.

Read happy books.

Make them laugh many times every day.

Wear our their bodies with fresh air, exercise, and sunshine.

Teach them to love other people.

Get rid of every teacher who isn’t capable of doing this.

Every teacher who is determined to pit her students against each other with critical race theory or some other subversive version of it.

Every teacher in the classroom should be there to nurture and heal these children through the most joyous opportunities available. Angry teachers should be nowhere near children next year.

Teachers with an ax to grind should be removed.

If you want to begin saving this generation of children, it starts with a complete rethinking of every moment of the school day.

Thirty minutes of recess in the morning. Thirty minutes of play at lunchtime. Thirty minutes of recess in the afternoon. Do reading and math. Read lots of good, positive books.