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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]they aren't. You will be on your own. Just like we all have been with the learning loss from virtual for 1.5 years.[/quote]

Strange.  My kids have been in virtual for two years and no learning loss.  [/quote]

I'm not worked up about 3 days, but at least for high schoolers there actually is a bit of learning loss over the past two years.  It is a bit different for elementary and middle school.[/quote]

I feel like some parents hyperfocus on “learning loss” because it’s easier to cope with and to blame schools than admit that ANY kid going through their formative years of development in the chaos engendered by a pandemic is going to have massive impact on them in many ways. Like I really just think this fixation on “learning loss” is a coping mechanism, something some people grab onto like well I’d my kid didn’t experience THAT their life would have otherwise been completely normal. And it wouldn’t have. This is a generation growing up in a pandemic. The “learning loss” is quite literally the least of the impact. [/quote]

PP you quoted and I don't disagree with you.  But there is a difference between "hyperfocusing" on it and simply acknowledging it is real.  In lower grades you can miss that unit on the Lewis and Clark expedition or whatever and it have no impact.  In high school many students have to pass tests that cover standardized topics regardless of whether they received actual instruction on that topic, and those tests have impact on college admission and beyond.  The learning loss is real.  That isn't to say that it is unique or that there aren't other impacts from the pandemic.  But it is real.

(Again, the three days so far in January does not concern me.)[/quote]

And as a teacher I can tell you a lot of kids’ brains are in crisis mode right now even if their physical body isn’t in crisis mode and they don’t appear to be experiencing a crisis at the moment. And when their brains are in crisis mode, they cannot learn and retain information as effectively, whether in person or online. Elementary or high school. They are growing up in a once a century pandemic that has wreaked havoc on every aspect of life and that will show up no matter what. [/quote]

I'm sure this is true for some.  But I'm not sure how it is relevant.  Do you say it to refute learning loss, or just as an additional thing that impacts kids?

My children are not in crisis.  They WERE in the Spring of 2020, but things have been largely fine for them since the beginning of this school year.  They are in class, seeing friends, participating in sports and ECs, traveling to an extent.  The only remaining impacts are wearing the mask, missing things like large concerts and of course some fear of contracting COVID.  But given where we are with vaccines and the like, it is no longer a "crisis inducing" issue.

And to be clear, I do think kids can learn virtually, especially older ones.  This isn't about in person or virtual to me.  The learning loss I am referring
g to was in those many months in the early days when there was no instruction for stretches, "asynchronous learning days", and so many tech problems that classes just didn't happen.  It can be done, and I'm optimistic that if we have to we an do it again (for a short time). [/quote]

My kid is mostly freaked out by going to a school where so many kids with covid. This is traumatizing to them. Online school was a breeze by comparison.[/quote]

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