School at Home Is a Data Problem Before It Is a Teaching Problem
A family pulls their daughter out of school in March, planning to finish sixth grade at home and re-enroll her in the fall. In September the district registrar asks for an account of the spring: days of instruction, subjects covered, evidence of progress. What the parents have is a stack of finished workbooks, a library card with a long history, and a phone full of undated photos. They spend a weekend reconstructing five months from memory.