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TEAM HOME-SCHOOL

Beijing’s COVID-19 flare-ups have once again made homeschooling the “new normal.” The latest notice informing all students in the city’s primary and middle schools they would have to “go to class” online came on May 3.

Family time

When Zhong Beiling, mother to a 10-year-old boy in Beijing’s Haidian District, first saw the homeschooling news on WeChat, one of China’s most popular super-apps, she became instantly worried. “Homeschooling means a lot of extra work for the parents, including preparing three meals a day for my son,” Zhong told . “My husband and I are both civil servants. We have to take turns asking for

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