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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your kid have attention issues? Mine does and we only realized it during the pandemic. She doesn’t have the ability to sit on a computer for hours with remote learning and then tackle homework on the computer for another 3-hour block. [/quote]

That’s not an attention issue. That’s normal. Even grown adults aren’t expected to stare at a screen for 6-7 hours straight and then spend another 2-3 hours on the computer for homework every day. And then when you add in the pressure of junior year and take away everything else that makes it worth it like time with friends, school activities and events, sports, everything that makes them feel human...all they have is that damn screen. Do not fault your kid for the unreasonable expectations. [/quote]

I have a junior as well so I can relate. And I completely agree with this.

The real issue, I think, is how we as parents, schools and a society have allowed it to come to this for our kids. We are all smiling merrily along, talking about vaccines and "life slowly reopening," and meanwhile, every single freaking day, these kids are missing part of their high school life. These are critical years of development that can never be replaced. We've pretended that their education hasn't suffered - ha. What a joke. More important, they have suffered as young teens who were robbed of one of the last important years under parental and school supervision, but with the expectation that they could experience more independence and self-discovery. That is completely gone.

It's a travesty. Our kids will pay the price for this for some time to come.

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I think that the lockdowns have been a necessary evil, but I think the pandemic has obviously cost our kids’ $10 trillion to $20 trillion in earnings (3.5 million affected kids per grade, grades 11 through senior in college, with an average of $10,000 in reduced earnings per year) and it’s cost society about $100 trillion to $200 trillion in economic output. An average of at least about 10 percent of today’s GDP per year for 50 years.

But maybe a reduction in the size of the workforce will somehow offset a lot of that. [/quote]

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