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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. Not really. I don’t think the pandemic was a big deal for my kids. They go to Catholic school, so other than spring 2020, they were mostly back in the classroom starting fall 2020, albeit with a lot of changes. Plus, they were at an age where they still liked being with us. And I supplemented their work. [/quote]
Yeah, we were in a public school and spring of 1st was a total loss.

Then kids were fully virtual for all of 2nd and that was pretty much a total loss too.  The principal of our school agree with teacher that it was too much to teach virtually all day so she let teachers combine classes, so the video calls has 45-60 second graders on them.  It was awful.

Then third grade was still full of masks and distancing and Covid tests (at school).  It was an improvement, but not great.  Kids were all over the place with some kids still not knowing how to read or their addition/subtraction facts and others being advanced from being home schooled.  None of the kids knew appropriate classroom behavior and our teachers (in a very very Covid cautious school) were scared, stressed and unhappy to be there because they all thought they were going to get sick and die. They did almost everything on iPads because they thought they'd get Covid from paper.  Kids still had to stay 6 feet apart and couldn't get up from their desks.  It wasn't a good.

Finally 4th was normal-ish.  But kids were still really behind.  The schools had done nothing to remediate kids who were behind.  There were no extra resources.  The teacher shared that half of the 4th grade class was still writing their 5s backwards.

It's been a slong, but most kids seem to be on track now in 5th.

The kids with ADHD and LD who would have gotten resources and support in end of 1st or 2nd, hopefully making progress in 3rd, really suffered the most.  It's hard to make up those losses.  There were kids at a kindergarten reading level going into 3rd who hasn't had supports or interventions for a year and a half.  That's hard to make up when by 3rd and 4th kids should be reading to learn.[/quote]

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