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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Child #1 Academically, not a bit.  Mental health wise, she got so depressed I thought we might lose her.  Luckily, she and I are very close, she confided her painful thoughts, and we were able to get her the help she needed.  She's good now.

Child #2  Didn't even blink  He was and is totally fine

The young students I taught?  They struggled.  The next year, some were okay, some struggled.  This past year was so horrible, I quit mid year.  I was afraid every day that a kid was going to seriously hurt me.  I suspect that out of desperation, and through no fault of their own, parents just put kids in front of screens all day every day.  Some parents were so afraid of covid in the community I taught in they almost never left their homes for 2 years.  Kids with disabilities did not get EI because parents were too afraid.  And many, many people who saw our early childhood classrooms remarked on the similarity to a psych ward.  Kids were/are severely disturbed and I don't know if they'll ever recover mentally and emotionally.  And I know the kids from preK coming up are just as screwed up.  They run around the classrooms, jump off furniture, bite staff and draw blood, scream profanities, destroy class libraries (my friend took every thing she owned in the room home so it wouldn't get ripped).

I think we faced a lose-lose situation and now we're all paying for it.  I don't really think public schools are equipped to deal with the fall out.  If I did, I might have stayed.  [/quote]

They are nothing like psych wards and these kids has issues because of the adults behavior. [/quote]

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