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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys know that this this TAL episode was originally designed to be one mostly-pro-virtual-school story and one anti-whatever-tf-happened-during-covid school story, right?  But they put a little coda on it because they found out the kid from the first story wasn't actually doing her work the second time she went virtual.

Contrary to the two stories in here, not everybody's virtual experience was bad.  I'm the mom above with a middle school girl, and she still talks about the year right after covid first happened, where schools here were still virtual, as a time when she really found her voice and confidence in herself.  She caught back up in math, but found inner strength.  For her it was a net gain.

Sorry if your kids did not have that experience, but it's not all doom and gloom.[/quote]

The first story wasn't real pro virtual school as much as it was about a mom with very few resources doing the best that she could to support her kid when schools were closed and how much that psychologically impacted both mother and daughter. I don't think they necessarily chose to go back to virtual schooling because they thought it was a better option but because they felt stuck between two difficult options and chose the one that they were more comfortable with and even then it turned out to not be really great either. I hope that Neah can readjust to life in school or find a better and healthier way to homeschool[/quote]

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