Before we blame the pandemic, are there any studies showing whether parents have been reading to their kids these past few years, or has the iPad taken over as the parent?
Test scores took a dive during the pandemic and never recovered.
It would be really hard to point to something else other than the pandemic to note the sudden and dramatic drop.
“The pandemic” doesn’t explain it.
What specifically, during the pandemic, led to a 2% drop in their scores?
Were kids not being read to at home? Did they spend all their time during lockdown watching TV?
Screen time, which should be limited to under an hour for preschool aged kids, is considerably higher than that, and it got worse during the pandemic.
It seems like parents or caregivers would be to blame for that.
A lot of pre-K education comes from daycare facilities and other methods where parents give their kids to others to care for. Take those kids and put them at home with parents who still have to work and you’ll probably see a dip in education levels.
Specifically, the closing of schools during the pandemic, leading to mass amounts of children not having access to daily reading practice.
Most parents were not able to make up that time with their kids.
Exactly this. If you choose to have kids you’ve gotta actually nurture them and educate them.
You have to have time to nurture them, as well. I imagine a lot of parents simply don’t have the time/energy because of needing to work so much to take care of their families.
I don’t know why this simple fact is so often over looked. If you have to work two jobs, commute, play with your kid, do laundry, make dinner, clean up then try and relax there is NO TIME to nurture your damn kid. As a dad it’s easy to see how single moms and blue collar parents have to constantly stick their kids in front of a iPad because they have nothing left to give.
