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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, as someone with two pandemic babies  (a 2020 and a 2021) I think the pandemic was hard on PARENTS with babies, but not really bad for the kids. I mean, someone was changing their diapers and feeding them milk and all that jazz, and they were too young for excessive screens.

From talking to teachers at various levels, the hardest hit roughly in order from worst to best were 1) the kids in K/1st, as doing those grades online is impossible and they missed crucial reading skills 2) middle schoolers, who missed crucial socializing and basically arrived to high school with the maturity of 5th graders and 3) the toddlers (ages 2-3) who spent WAY more time on screens then they would have otherwise.

So those kids are now in middle school, early college, and like 3/4th grade. [/quote]

100% this. I have two of those. I have a middle schooler who is dyslexic and needed a lot of tutoring to get back up to grade level after learning absolutely nothing in the end of 1st and almost all of 2nd grade. I also have a 4th grader and we don't regret sending her to preschool in 2020 as soon as it opened back up. She got the socialization that she needed with minimal screen time and I can absolutely tell the difference between her and some of her peers that were home that whole time (not all of them, but some of them are still quite feral). [/quote]

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