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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the schools are a disaster since Covid. Can’t put a finger on the exact reason but closing  everything for a year did a number on our kids. Yes some kids are fine, my kid is fine, we homeschooled. A lot of kids are not fine though and it’s showing up. [/quote]

Stop blaming COVID which happened 4 years ago. The problems were there BEFORE the pandemic, COVID just exacerbated them. It’s parenting. Plain and simple. No one wants to hear that though bc they automatically take offense. No one said you personally. In general, it’s poor parenting. It’s a generation that was raised on IPads and parents who refuse to discipline their children. [/quote]

So, what are your policy solutions for "poor parenting"? BAD PARENTS SHOULD BE BETTER PARENTS (LIKE ME)!!! is not a policy solution.[/quote]

The policy decision for poor parenting is that schools are trying to make up for it.  They are trying to train and coach kids on behavior and skills that should have been learned in preschool and at home.  All while trying to expand access to preschool education and inform the public on what kids need in order to be prepared.

Folks come here talking about what they learned and when done 20/30/40/50 years ago as if the world is still the same. We still want school days the same length, long summers, and 1-1 teaching.  But the news flash that folks won’t seem to accept is that standards have changed and so has the expectations of kids. So we either completely reinvent our system or we try to cram it all in the same way while the number of kids to teach has explode and the number of people doing the teaching is decreasing.

At some point as communities and as a nation we have to say we value some intangible things like education, health, happiness more than corporate profits and then invest the necessary amount of time and dollars to make that statement true.[/quote]

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