A roller rink. The YMCA. Houses of worship. All are creating makeshift classrooms this fall as school campuses remain closed around the country because of the pandemic
But it also raises public health questions: If it’s not safe to open schools this fall, why would learning hubs be any different?The prolonged crisis has forced American communities into a late-summer frenzy to replace what schools provided on the ground, especially for children who don’t have a safe or quiet place to learn at home.
“We cannot allow our highest need families not only to decline on the academic side but also on the social emotional side,” said Maria Su, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, who is coordinating the city’s effort. “I’m a child psychologist. For me, learning isn’t just book learning. It’s building social peer interactions. Those are all equally as — if not more — important than the math and the science and the language arts.
“We just don’t want the learning loss to continue,” said Teena Belcik, CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County. “It’s not about the money, it’s not about the will,” he said in an interview last week. “People should not be gathering in large numbers here.”, said groups disproportionately affected by Covid-19, such as Black and Latino families, may not be comfortable bringing their children to a group setting even if one is available.
Learning hub proponents say unlike school districts, nonprofit and city programs can control how many children they enroll, allowing them to manage the numbers and group sizes in a way that most schools cannot.
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