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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do other people have kids who don't already know that they have forgotten things?  My 7 yo absolutely knows and to deny it would be gaslighting.

For instance, last fall, after months of DL she tried to do some math problems by hand.  She got super frustrated because she couldn't form the numbers and kept making mistakes.  We talked about how you forget things if you don't practice them.  She realized that math by iPad doesn't let her practice writing numbers.  She agreed to do extra practice on paper with me since they didn't do any math on paper last year and she knows that she should be able to write numbers as a second grader.  Rinse and repeat for other subjects.  She abaolutely knows when something she used to be able to do easily is now frustratingly hard.

Learning loss is real.  Don't gaslight kids.   They're smarter than you give them credit for.[/quote]

But forgetting things isn’t what “learning loss” means. When people say some students experienced 12 months of learning loss, it doesn’t mean they forgot everything they learned in the past year. It means they are a year behind. Bad both ways but being a year behind as opposed to 18 months or 2 years behind is a big difference.

This is why I’m not a huge fan of the term. I think it’s confusing.

Here is an article explaining the term: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/10/what-learning-loss-really-means/[/quote]

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