“…The Covid-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to education at all levels, here and around the globe, as evidenced by ongoing outpourings of research and commentary. This moment is aptly described as precarious: “the old normal is no more, and [the] new normal is not yet” (Jandrić, 2021 , p. 650). This new normal is one in which education is increasingly justified in financial terms to the exclusion of all else, and understood through economic instrumentalist discourses in public, perpetuated by institutional leaders.…”