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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah I’ve heard a lot with the older students, HS age, that the disruptive student behaviors are getting to the point where it’s more productive for kids to learn the material at home. The quality of the instruction is bad for a large number of reasons. Would going to school in person with high quality instruction be better, of course it would. But a lot of kids feel like HS classes where the teachers are just focused on “classroom management” are a waste of time.

For ES, those are the kids whose parents have absorbed the harshest of the Covid messaging. The current 3rd graders were all virtual for K. The current 4th graders had K cut short and all virtual 1st. You’d have to get to 5th grade to get a grade that had a single normal non-K year before Covid. The younger kids (2nd and below) have only ever known the, STAY HOME IF YOU’RE SICK!!!!11 messaging. I will say this school year it’s started to change more to “come to school or else!!!!1” like it used to be. But between parents keeping kids home for more minor illnesses, and parents using the school year to travel … there’s a lot of absences. My 2nd grader had 3 kids in his class of 25 who missed MORE THAN a full school week due to travel and many more than that who took a partial week or an extra long weekend or what have you. We did too so I can’t throw stones. [/quote]

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