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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The good news is that K-2 are times were lots of concepts are taught in spirals with lots of reinforcement so the kids should be able to catch up.  I would be far more concerned if we were talking about the MS and HS kids, who I do think were legitimately screwed last year. Lots of those classes build on each other and catching up is far harder to do.

No one is pretending that there is an easy way to deal with what happened last year, it was a unique situation. Schools were shut because they needed to be. Could they have been opened earlier? Yup. No doubt about it in my mind but I am not a Scientist or medical expert and it wasn't my call. All I could do is make the mess work as best as I could.

What I saw, in our little circle of friends, is that very few kids parents were making their kids complete the Monday async work. The few who were only had their kids complete the must do work. DS was the only kid who was doing all the must dos and can dos. The number of people talking at the pool this summer about how they allowed their ES kid to just not do the work on Mondays or skip the sessions they didn't like was crazy. People seemed almost proud of the fact that they had stuck it to the schools by letting their kids turn off the computer or not participate.

And now they are now complaining that their kids are behind. Well, of course they are. Virtual learning sucked, especially for the younger kids. It was stupid hard and not an effective way to teach kids. The Teachers had no say over that mess and could only try to do their best to make it work. There wasn't a Teacher out there that thought that this was an effective way of teaching kids, especially early elementary. But it is where we were and what we had to work with.  It was hard for everyone. Really it was. The amount of people whose response was to say screw it and not find a solution was astonishingly high.

So yeah, kids are behind this year. Kids who were in person all last year are ahead. ES kids are in the best position to make up that ground. It is going to take work but it is doable if parents choose to make it a priority and don't expect the schools to do everything.

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MS and HS kids who actually attended class and did the assigned work are fine and not behind at all. [/quote]

Wrong.[/quote]

My priority last year was keeping my 5/6 year old kid with severe anxiety as close to sane as possible and trying not to lose it myself. We weren’t the only ones. I think a lot of these kids are struggling not only because virtual school is actually harmful for kids at the age but because their parents were and still are struggling badly and the kids knew it. And we are also so so so lucky in a lot of ways, since we weren’t struggling financially and my work was really flexible with me. I don’t know how you can have gone through the last year and feel judgmental towards anyone with young kids.

Also, for what it’s worth our friends and extended family in CT and NY had access to in person school for their elementary school age kids most of the year. They were fine - I was jealous the little kids were prioritized like that. Those kids are doing way better academically and emotionally from what I can tell.

I’m incredibly grateful for my kid’s amazing teacher this year and believe eventually they will be ok again but we are still struggling to deal with the damage from last academic year. [/quote]

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