Role Model

Microsoft jumping in to help kids with math problems is wonderful. Something for other big companies to learn from. There is plenty of room for lessons in science, language, social studies and more. Brands could create their niche by teaching what they know best. Would be cool to see publishers teaching kids to write well, pharma teaching biology and chemistry and so on. So many opportunities to do good in the world by way of impacting a child's life positively. 

Many companies already offer tuition reimbursement and post-secondary education opportunities for adults if they are already employees of these companies. This would be a logical next step and it would be great to see the Microsoft setting a trend here. There is such a dire need for help and the pandemic made it even more so. Keeping students at home and engaged in their education is a monumental challenge and parents are burning out. 

To say parents are struggling is an understatement. Sixty-three percent say the pandemic made the 2019-2020 school year extremely stressful for them, according to an August survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of the American Psychological Association. In the same survey, 77 percent of parents of 8- to 12-year-olds said that uncertainty about the 2020-2021 school year was causing them stress.