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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School was closed for 3 months in the 2019-2020 school year, kids were phased in for hybrid learning fall 2020, then paused for a surge, then back in spring 2021 and full time ever since. The kids this age have spent the majority of their elementary years IN SCHOOL, it does not make sense to attribute behaviors, etc to a time period of under one calendar year of online learning that was 4 years ago. It really does not. This is a parenting, lack of community, screens and societal norms issue. [/quote]

I don’t know about effects, but I will say my kid missed preschool March 2020 - August 2020, was then fully virtual September 2020 - March 2021, finally hybrid (2 days/week in person) April 2021 - June 2021.

Then even once back in person for the 2021-22 school year he was masked, which apparently mine was defunct for hating because so many others claim their kids “thrived” in a mask, and absent for extended chunks of time due to quarantining and awaiting PCR testing for every minor illness. Not to mention many extracurriculars were not fully back up and running, and many families were not yet doing play dates again. So let’s not pretend like all the kids were back to hybrid as of fall 2020 with a few small bumps along the way. Of the 4 years mine has spent in elementary school only 2 years of those were fully normal.

My family is lucky because we bubbled with other families and hired a pod tutor. My kid is doing great, testing way ahead of grade, and is overall still pretty respectful and helpful. But I’m not going to gloss over the fact that this was not the reality for many kids during some critical years. And all along the way parents of this age group got guilt and blame for wanting any supports while trying to educate kids and keep their jobs, and now are continuing to be told they are on their own to blame. [/quote]

Yeah, everyone’s experience of the pandemic was a little different. My kid was fully home from school (we chose to homeschool rather than engage in virtual school so it wasn’t screens/virtual as I was his teacher but still he wasn’t in a regular school setting) from March 2020 when he was in 4k preschool-September 2021 when he started 1st grade in person. The last few months of preschool and all of kindergarten was homeschool. In our district, hybrid in person school was not even an option in our public elementary until February 2021. So not ALL kids went hybrid in fall of 2020. That wasn’t an option for us unless we had moved or done private school.

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