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[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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Stop being so smug. Most of us had FT jobs and most K-2 cannot autonomously sit down and do work.  So no, I was not able to make my kid do all the asynchronous work. Or even all of the live work.

And in any event ... my kid is actually not academically behind at all, except likely in writing. But he got zero feedback on his writing even when we made sure he did it, so how can that be on us?  At the end of the day, the biggest loss for him was social/emotional and mental health. And there's not much I could do about that on my own.  He needed to be with his peers, and he wasn't.[/quote]

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