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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister in law is a public school ELA teacher and brought a stack of essays with her to my house as she’s staying over because her water heater flooded her apartment. I perused though some of them out of curiosity. She teaches the 8th grade. Some of these kids write like they are in elementary school. Serious and consistent spelling mistakes (read is raed, you are is ur, mention is mensin etc), failure to write more than 2 sentences for a 500 word essay, run on sentences, poor punctuation etc.  She told me most of the kids are very behind and a good number should not proceed to high school. She said that in the last 3 years the overall quality of the work the kids are producing is down. How much do you think the pandemic hurt your child academically?[/quote]

Not nearly as much as everyone else. We withdrew them from public and homeschooled during the fully online year. Kids were accelerated in reading and math when we re-enrolled them back into the school. Our school district does a good job identifying and offering academic support to students who still haven't caught up in the form of summer school and lots of free or low-cost after school programs. It works because the students and their parents put in the effort to catch up. I really think if certain kids haven't caught up by now their parents have to get real and stop blaming it on the pandemic. They've had two full summer breaks to catch up. [/quote]

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