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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]truly, this thread is the worst of DCUM.[/quote]

Agree.  It really has brought out some odd and nasty opinions.  
First grade is a disaster this year? 
Well oh, that's because you lazy parents didn't get Kumon workbooks to supplement at home last year.  
And that's a realllllly weird perspective.  Were those workbooks supposed to supplement being in a classroom with other kids? Because that's what was lost here and what the OP was about.  
Closing down schools had real effects on kids in school.  It's not worth blaming parents or teachers for those decisions or the consequences of those decisions.  We as a society lost because of the pandemic and now the energy should be focused on how to help those affected catch up.  [/quote]

That’s what’s frustrating. We lost more loves per capita than almost any other country AND we sacrificed our kids. We truly had the worst pandemic response.[/quote]

PP with kid with anxiety. I don’t know what the OP was trying to achieve with their post but for myself and many other parents I know it’s important for the school system to admit what a disaster virtual learning was especially for younger kids so we can point to this if god forbid we have another rise in cases this winter or some other situation that people might think merits returning to virtual learning. It was SO bad and SO unnecessary (as demonstrated by many US states who kept schools open with reasonable precautions). Academics are easy to quantify so the losses there are obvious already but the far more important mental health, delay in diagnosis of learning disabilities and increase in obesity in these kids (and many adults) are not getting the attention they deserve. My kid is fine academically but it’s not because I demanded that we spend extra hours doing enrichment after she used every single bit of self control she had to sit in front of Zoom for 4.5 hours, no kid should have to do that.  She just learns easily and we are lucky in that regard and less lucky in others. Good grief. [/quote]

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