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+1000.[b] I don’t know why so many people are being nasty to OP.[/b]

Education begins at home. I have a niece in 1st and a nephew in 3rd. They had a father working in COVID wards and a mother WFH in a high-stress job. They were put through Kumon to supplement the poor DL and they’re perfectly fine. Other parents chose not to do this and they’re being defensive. And don’t whine to me about their privilege. Many of you have the same privilege yet you failed your kids.[/quote]

Perhaps because OP was being nasty about young kids and their parents.[/quote]

Some parents have really let their kids down over the last 18 months. This is an undeniable fact. Yes, DL was a disaster, but some parents tried to mitigate the disaster, others did not or made it worse by allowing and encouraging terrible behavior and learned helplessness.[/quote]

FOAD.  You have no clue what some parents were dealing with.[/quote]

Maybe. But not most of the parents posting here.[/quote]

You don’t know that, but even if you’re right, so what?  Your comment wasn’t limited to only parents here. [/quote]

Parents, even the ones who “we have no idea what they are dealing with” are still ultimately responsible for how their kids turn out. I’m the end, if their kid is a HS drop out or whatever, no one is going to blame the pandemic from back in K. [/quote]

Yes, there could be a whole wave of kids that turn out behind from the effects of the pandemic, and it's the school system's fault for acting like 5 year-olds can do a school day on Zoom. The majority of parents were doing the best that they could, but not everyone can afford supplementing and tutoring or even has a lot of time for homeschooling. [/quote]

They can stay mad and blame whoever they want, but in the in it’s THEIR kid they are punishing by not taking their own steps to remediate. [/quote]

You mean virtual tutoring?   :roll:

With only one school-aged DC, it was easy for me to put all his difficulties on me being a terrible parent, not knowing how to communicate things that he wasn't understanding in virtual, etc.  But the more I talk to other parents, it was evident that even within the same families, some kids did better with Zoom school than others.  Everyone has different personalities and learning styles.  My sister, for example, elected virtual for her two ES kids even though they could have gone in person. (they're in FL).  So it was a deliberate choice - she was still working, but part-time and flexible, and she was up to the task of supporting their learning.  Her first grader largely did ok- easygoing kid, picks things up easily.  Was already ahead of most of his peers.  Her 3rd grader, on the other hand, is more high strung, doesn't pick things up as quickly, and defiant with my sister in a way she just isn't in class.  Kids went back midway through the year since the outbreaks never materialized and everyone was miserable.[/quote]

1+.  It is interesting how PPs immediately assume all children (as young as 5 years!) can access and engage with online learning to an equal extent such that any difficulties with the last 1 yr+ must be attributable to parental neglect. In no other context would they be pushing the idea that somehow 4+ hours on screens were appropriate or well-suited to K-3rd education. In fact, they would argue that 4+ hours on screens *was* parental neglect...[/quote]

The problem is those same parents then stuck the kids on the iPad for the rest of the day after school too.

No one is saying online learning was super effective for K students. But if parents literally did nothing additional for all of last year, while knowing virtual was ineffective, that’s on them.[/quote]

It's as if you are reading this thread selectively, skipping over most of the posts that don't fit your narrative.

Kindergarten is about community.  And this year's 1st graders didn't get it last year.[/quote]

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