Learning pods, low-income students, and the micro-schooling debate
Sep 10, 2020
4 minutes
A month ago, Brad Thorpe had never heard of a learning pod.
Within a week, the Toronto father was busy converting a spinning room at a gym he owns into a classroom for his sixth grade daughter and seven classmates.
The entrepreneur who holds 15 patents describes himself as a “solutions guy” who had a problem: Schools are opening across Ontario Sept. 15, but with 27 students per class in his daughter’s age range, he worried about the school’s ability to maintain social distancing. So he hired an Ontario-certified teacher, shaped a curriculum, and “in a day and on a dollar” created a website launching the Girls Only Academy.
That kind of entrepreneurial spirit has undergirded the
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