The Covid19 pandemic has certainly placed the inequality among schools and their learners under a microscope and reveals the great divide between the haves and have nots of our country.

As public schools enter another 4 weeks of “crisis-schooling”, “online schooling” and in some cases “no schooling”, the learners that experience barriers to learning are at an even greater disadvantage. Let me explain why I say that. For a child to be learning-ready or open to receive instruction, there needs to be the following: