If homeschooling was considered the resource for a new generation that claims for new shapes on the Educational standards and methods after COVID19 it becomes simply essential. Most of the action against the pandemic is based on contingent plans rather than prevention. Is it so that schools search to become safer with strict protocols that although all the efforts are not 100% safe, while a prevention plan as homeschooling can effectively do so. The fact that is not part a priority in the Education system agenda or at least at the political level decisions (only reserved to strict lockdown ) shows that there is not a strategic vision for the future. Rather short-term actions related to emergencies in a very specific length of time.
That the world is moving towards a “digital way of living” is an undeniable fact and with COVID19 it becomes a tool and a shield to fight back for the new generations. However, the needed technological changes are not encompassed with the current level of crisis, making digital Education only one more subject and not a step to reform the whole system.
The dramatic changes that the planet is going through demand training not only to the emergencies in itself, limited in time but a focus on educating on uncertainty without undermining creativity.
We are being a witness to the power of digitalization to keep relations alive as well as rescuing the economy to fall completely. Is precisely the latest that we need to boost new shapes enough resilient to survive crises and re-convert ourselves during and after emergencies.
To gain sustainability the Education system cannot be reduced to digitalization for crises but one more option for those courage to face challenges from an open, modern, free, and independent way.
Educating on traditional codes of socialisation within only present options is not a good contribution to train youth towards a virtual world in and out emergencies. More and more we realise that the traditional Education system is becoming oppressive* and the positive aspect of socialisation becomes an element that can be easily fulfilled by other ways rather than the school-centered option.
Being flexible as rubber is a must be to create resilient actors for a future of Artificial Intelligence and a complete transformation of the economy into a sophisticated technology. The kids of today are the future digital actors of a new labor market that is still unknown and somehow uncertain. Is it for this reason that educates open-minded generations is the main challenge ahead to face revolutionary changes.
Homeschooling is also the bridge to keep the balance with the family, as the presencial Education supposes a burden to develop traditional family links, instead it reduces the impact of many hours per week out of home and out of interconnections.
COVID19 comes to show that it is possible and we can combine traditions with technology without almost no efforts just a change of mind within goodwill and a determined attitude towards the new.
Homeschooling is one of the most important frameworks to boost creativity towards a future automatized world in which they will not be much use of the art of building innovative responses but rather repetitive codes.
If the Education system is not open enough to see crises as an opportunity, digital education will remain a stagnated compartment instead of a process of learning on resilience and innovation. A future based on artificial intelligence supposes new mental structures and holistic relations that make us more efficient humans assisted by technology and no less human and more robots.
Homeschooling is an option from the kids and their parents to generate critical thinking as well as an exercise of freedom adapted to each family environment beyond crises and within a strict regulation from the State.
*https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/03/get-to-be-free-rise-in-home-schooling?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0CxkelHuTliK_3oAn5yv9iR8XV5bkrrEdFlr__Oj7mDf8boEu6BvWNLU8
Picture: http://www.pacoprieto.com/la-universidad-deja-entrar-a-lego-serious-play/
thesustainabilityreader 
2 thoughts on “Homeschooling: if it is not now, when?”