Abstract
When the COVID-19 virus hit in March 2020, educators scrambled to adapt to the elimination of face-to-face educational programs, and the Jewish and general educational blogosphere erupted as the experts weighed in with advice. Some of these experts opined that kids need structure, and that educational programs ought to maintain their schedules as much as possible. Their advice, therefore, was to convert classes to synchronous, online activities, to maintain the familiar amidst the instability. Others insisted that, now more than ever in this uncertain time, kids craveconnection. Content coverage must take a back seat; borrowing from E.M.Forster, “Only connect." Still others pointed to the upheaval facing families with children, and demanded maximal flexibility and synchronicity. The role of the educator, in their view, was simply to provide resources—to be a curator of resources or a guide through them—and to get out of the way. Let families find their own paths at their own pace in their own time