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[quote=Anonymous]To provide a different perspective, yes, the first half of this year was very, very difficult.  Students were feral-like.  But at least at my school, we've seen a pretty big turn around.  Kids who needed IEP's finally are starting to get them.  Kids who needed medication are finally starting on that.  Kids who were out of control are doing well on their behavior plans.  Kids who were behind are catching up.

I'm in a low to middle income school with about 14 languages spoken.  It will probably take another year to see full academic recovery, but most of our students will have made about a year and a half of progress this past year.  Some of the behaviors are similar to what we had prior to Covid.  But I'm seeing students who can finally walk in a line, follow basic directions such as "put your scissors away" and kids who have some respect for others.

I know other districts and buildings might still be struggling and I hope they start to see successes soon.  Even with things getting better in my district, we are still seeing double the amount of retirements and resignations.  We may have to shut down our early childhood program because we don't have enough people to staff it.  That will be terrible, because that means more kids going without services for too long.  But, that's the market.  If communities want strong preschools for their high need populations in public schools, I suspect it'll come down to $$ and conditions.  [/quote]

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