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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
 Online learning in the pandemic was home schooling !
 Its in the name HOME schooling. [/quote]

If you are trying to use pre-pandemic  homeschooling stats to argue that the school closures were anything other than unmitigated educational disaster, you have already lost the argument.

Find some stats that show that DL during the pandemic was a success for anything other than a statistically irrelevant group of kids. I’ll wait. [/quote]

https://www.edutopia.org/article/why-are-some-kids-thriving-during-remote-learning

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2769434

Key points: Distance learning has an advantage for kids who are easliy distracted by classmates. It improve sleeping time since kids dont have to be up and out before their parents leave for work. It provides the flexiability for kids who have heath conditions that mean they have to come and go from hospital.

Just because your family didnt take to distance learning dosen't mean that it was universally an unmitigated disaster.

distance learning is being used by Ukranian teachers to maintain consistancy for refugees. [/quote]

You are relying on a "study" demonstrating the success of virtual learning from August of 2020? [/quote]

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