When Chicago's major newspapers both call for mandatory summer school for my students, they miss the point. They miss this moment. It's hard to imagine a more tragic example of a group of educated people missing the forest for the trees. http://bit.ly/aj4420 

Surely they know what really constitutes a “body blow” to my students’ education: Poverty. Economic insecurity. Food insecurity. Lack of adequate health care.

Yet we won’t find the Tribune advocating that our society use “the absolute need to be flexible” during a pandemic in order to address the historically high and embarrassing levels of economic inequality in our society.

Nope. Just more school for other people’s children.