“We are actively dealing with problems remote learning caused. A whole generation of kids is further behind than they were tracking to be behaviorally, mathematically, and in reading scores.”
Gee I wonder what would do that, is it three+ years of unmitigated exposure to a virus that causes brain damage? No, the problem is they stayed home, which makes you developmentally challenged, as we all know. Oh, you don’t want to get COVID? Then stay home.
The education system was fucked either way because it’s being privatized and what little public education is slowly being choked by austerity minded ghouls. Long COVID has just accelerated the decline.
I said it back then and I stand by it now: they should have just held everyone back a year.
I wonder how students in China are doing? If the lockdowns caused all these problems, surely the place that did the strictest lockdowns would have the most problems
I had to keep teaching online (kindergarten) during the lockdown in Shanghai. The online teaching tools provided were a little rough at the start but got better over the course of the lockdown (and after I set up dozens of macros to manage the class, and eventually some OBS gimmicks). Major difference between what I saw and what American teachers saw was supervision during class time. Almost everyone lives with their grandparents. I had to constantly beg grandma and grandpa to stop answering for students, stop hand feeding students during class so they could answer, to wear clothes during class, to tell their grandchild to wear clothes during class. My students all met academic goals pretty close to their normal ones. The only thing that was really hard to teach was tracing and copying for the computer kids, but the tablet kids did okay.
It’s not the lockdowns in a bottle, it’s how they were implemented. Lockdowns in US education had virtually no support and rules changed so frequently teachers couldn’t keep up.
There were also so many people who were “essential workers” who were mostly poor service workers. So many parents had to go to work while their children were mostly unsupervised at online school. I have no doubt China had different plans and implementations.
My siblings kids have both had Covid 4-5 times that I’m aware of.
The last study I saw showed the effects of lockdowns depended entirely on where the child was. In some places student scores came out ahead, some came out behind. Different states and cities handled it differently. The ones who went back to normal sooner, red states, didn’t necessarily do better than those that had longer remote learning.
Let’s just not mention the trauma of having over a milliion people die, and a million or so more aquiring debilitating health problems.
And the fucking virus causes brain damage, ffs. This is not a controversial statement. It’s well proven at this point, and so many people were convinced kids weren’t effected by covid (because they didn’t die very much) that a lot of them have been repeatedly infected. It’s nuts.
It’s essentially like we gave 20% or more of kids a concussion. What would we expect to happen after that?
you don’t breathe in 20 trillion concussions every time you go to the grocery store
