Roughly two decades ago, I read my college freshman English assignment and discovered that I would need to write an extensive research paper arguing for a topic of my choosing. Before beginning, I sheepishly submitted my topic to my professor for approval, believing that she would think its obscure nature quite crazy. Despite my hesitancy, she wholeheartedly approved it, and over the next few months, I carefully formed pages of arguments on why American education should return to the concept of the one-room school.
The main idea of that freshman English paper—the idea that I liked but thought was slightly crazy and rather unlikely to happen—sat on an old floppy disk for years. But in about 2010, it came to fruition in the microschool, a concept that’s gaining steam in the post-COVID years.
