COVID-19 Reminds Me of 1994 Report, ‘Prisoners of Time’ As much as schools have adopted to COVID-19, their underlying one-schedule-fits-all educational model remains the same. A 1994 report, and several recent examples, hint at what could be changed for the better. Shutterstock We’ve all experienced COVID-related events and circumstances we never predicted. We’ve had to change everything, and the stresses and strains are not over yet. Parents and students have a very understandable and very intense desire to go back to their pre-COVID education system. They miss their friends, their sports, their activities. But most don’t miss their industrial-model schools. We can’t go back and we shouldn’t go back (at least not for very long), because now is the opportunity to do schools, and education, better. The best way to improve our schools is to change how we use time and how we think about time in our schools.