Back to the future?

I've been following the comments on Facebook of a large group of people in town who are experiencing various levels of anxiety regarding their kids returning to school. Most of these folks want to know how on earth they're supposed to help their kids with distance learning while trying to do their jobs from home at the same time.  It's a very fair question.  Most parents are not trained to teach.  Being able to read or perform mathematical functions of one kind or another doesn't by any means mean you can teach them.  Plus where's the time come from?  So those folks have a legitimate issue.

But there's another group of parents (frankly mostly mothers) who are stay-at-home moms to begin with but they can't figure out how on earth they could ever be expected to help 2, 3 or even 4 children of different ages with school work.  Since they're not teachers I see their problem but being a former teacher myself I immediately think back to the 'old' days of the one room schoolhouse where there were as many as 30 kids in a room ranging in age from about 6 to 14. Somehow, they did it.  Granted, education was much simpler then but still....

Along those lines I dug up an old picture of what I had in mind and posted it to the Facebook group dealing with all of this.  It has drawn quite a response.  I love starting trouble!!

Here's the picture.