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In the pre-COVID era of education, very few Americans had ever heard of a microschool. But as COVID and the ensuing school closures rolled across the country, parents were forced to either get creative or have their kids miss out on learning. Parents in the San Francisco Bay Area made headlines for banding together in small groups, hiring teachers on their own, and paying upwards of $1,000 per student per month for their children to be part of a “learning pod.” When the pandemic had passed, but school closures had not, these tiny virtual classrooms became tiny in-person classrooms. Without perhaps knowing the term, these parents had created microschools.
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