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In recent weeks, many parents have realized the difficult truth about school this fall because of COVID-19. Hoping for a better , parents around US. have started organizing "pandemic (流行病) pods," or home schooling pods, for the fall, in which groups of 3 to 10 students learn together in homes under the guidance of the children's parents or a hired teacher.
For parents who can organize and them, pods seem like an easy choice. "I don't believe that the online courses for that age group are . Kids at this age really need that multimodal sensory learning (多模式感官学习). "one parent said.
These pods could families with a schooling choice that feels safe —yet also allows kids to
have fun and build social skills，However, it also has unavoidable shortcoming.
Depending on how the pods are set up, they may offer parents a break. But given that Pods can be a complicated to organize and self-selecting, it is possible that they are most popular among wealthy families, experts say, and may educational inequality.
Another about pods is that families may not know how to minimize Covid risks. Pods shouldn't
have more than five kids ， said Saskia Popescu, an infection prevention expert. When
you add together the teacher and all of the kids' family members, a seemingly small pod ends up including dozens of people, and the more people in it, the greater the for coronavirus exposure (接触). Furthermore families in learning pods shouldn't socialize with people outside the pod unless they wear masks and socially distant, Dr. Popescu said, Pods should have clear rules on wearing masks and washing hands.
