Crisis Response

Modern humans are beautifully designed to be their most creative and, more importantly, willingly, adaptive during a crisis.  Simply put, we become more receptive to outside the box ideas that were previously a bit too foreign or weird for our taste.

Unsurprisingly, this trait is presenting itself as families, around the country, are scrambling to come up with a solution beyond the two options school districts have presented - A) send their kids to school (with COVID modifications) or B) stay home to do online assigned school work and communicate with their teacher regularly.  One answer that has sprung up, seemingly overnight, is the formation of “pods” or “micro-schools.”  Yes, families are working together to hire a teacher to homeschool their children.  

This a wonderfully creative, outside the box, solution for those who have the disposable income (almost laughable isn’t it – those two words combined, “disposable” and “income”) to hire someone to develop curriculum and administer lessons in their home.  However (be ready for a gigantic dose of reality), social and economic status, once again, dictates who can take advantage of these opportunities and who is left, ostensibly, with those two choices.  Although, when you look at it honestly, even though it may seem like the schools are offering two viable options, we all know, for many, there is really only one.  The only way you can choose “B” is if someone (an adult) stays home.

You see, this crisis doesn’t present anything new that many folks haven’t been dealing with for a very long time. Even if they subscribed to the philosophy, and wanted desperately to remove their kids from school, the option to homeschool has never been available to them.  

Despite these grim truths, Deep Root Center has been right here, in the NoCo, for over six years, providing an alternative to school, for any family, despite their economic realities, who are dealing with a crisis or who are, simply, seeking something different.  This bears repeating - Deep Root Center does (will) not refuse any child because of their parents’ income level.

Therefore, if the current options presented to you and your family are unattractive, unrealistic, or purely unpalatable, Deep Root Center is here to help you build a unique plan that works specifically for you and your kids.  You are not alone and you are not destined to accept the seemingly inevitable.  

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