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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That doesn’t surprise me, since spring distance learning was virtually nonexistent, and everyone was excited with the novelty of not being in school.  Now, months later, the effects of long term isolation would likely Be setting in and presenting a completely different picture.  I see the same thing with my employees.  Telework was awesome when it started, but the mental health and well being issues are starting to creep in.[/quote]

Yes. This is exactly right. If you had asked my kid in public school about DL last spring, DC would have been very positive. No work, basically a vacation with an occasional zoom meeting with no content. What's not to like from a kid's point of view? Having no school obligations is fun for kids. DC worked on projects, hung out with friends on Discord, played video games, slept in late, etc. The only learning that happened was what we made DC do. From DCs point of view, spring DL was awesome.

It was another matter for my kids in private, who had real school online. That was hard for them -- they could not see friends other than online, but still had a workload. They started their days at 8 am, had labs, essays, homework, reading assignments, grades, etc. Their answers would have been much more negative, because they had the work of school without the positive social tradeoffs.

I largely view this survey as confirming that no learning occurred in the spring.[/quote]

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