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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for this post, OP. I work in a part of the world where education was massively disrupted for much of the 90s, and it's a mixed bag in terms of the "lost generation." Those with resources tended to emerge in an okay position, but the educational and social impact of that period can't be ignored.

However, that was almost a decade of disruption.[b] We are talking about a year or two, with distance learning, and the impact will be much less.[/b] [/quote]

Exactly!!! [/quote]

My dad missed a year plus of school when he was younger due to a disease outbreak, which I think is more similar to what is going on here.  He grew up in Asia, and this happened when he was in second/third grade.  He doesn't even remember what disease it was because he was pretty young -- likely nothing newsworthy outside of the local area.  But it was a semi-rural area with not a lot of resources, so maybe they could have sent the kids further away for school, but nobody had money to do that.  He remembers mostly playing with his brothers and sisters (not other kids due to fear of outbreak), and not doing much in the way of schoolwork.  So he was not the kind of kid who sat and read and taught himself.

He just casually mentioned this to me as we were discussing COVID.  I never knew before.  This year plus had no effect on him long-term.  He is a very accomplished person, with a US graduate degree, who had a successful career in the US and raised two successful kids.

I think about this when I start worrying about my own kids now.  And I'm happy to see this thread from OP showing that kids can be resilient in even more dire circumstances.  [/quote]

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