KQED News Mind/Shift – Kavitha Cardoza
“In the nation’s capital, like the rest of the country, kids cooped up at home for weeks now are craving both physical activity and the mental and creative challenges that extracurricular activities bring. And ballet instructors, soccer coaches and piano teachers — just to name a few — are finding the shutdown every bit as complicated as schools moving academic lessons online. As their counterparts in schools are finding every day, it’s really difficult to explain — watching on a screen — to children in a painting class exactly how to hold the brush to get the right effect. Or to align a young karate student’s body just so, for a proper sidekick.” (more)