What The Last of Us Taught Me About Teaching

Ellie would be proud

Children — Power — Paranoia

When the great pandemic ended and we resumed face-to-face teaching, I expected gaps in learning — maybe some shyness, maybe a kid or two still calling me Dad, accidentally, of course.

What I didn’t expect was to be emotionally outmanoeuvred by third graders who speak in code, build fortresses out of chairs and betrayal, and sho…