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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who want to keep their kids home aren’t seeing the forest through the trees.

Guess what?  Your kid will become socially awkward if he/she continues to stay home.  Kids need to learn and socialize.  If you’re an ADULT WHO CHOOSES to work from home, that’s fine.  But a child (including teens) needs to be around other children to learn not just their abcs and math, but also how to interact and continue to interact with others.  Knowing how to interact is a huge part of work success.[/quote]

Schools have an important social role in mixing children with other children who are not like them. Yes, there are schools where diversity is low along some dimension, but there is always some amount.

Relatedly, close ties with friends (who are often like you) are extremely valuable. But navigating weak ties (who are often different) is a more challenging and useful skill. Children who have been home during the pandemic have mostly only engaged with people with whom they have close ties. This is comfortable and easy for most of us. But it's the weak ties where kids need to work harder, and this is why even kids who are happy to be away from the "distracting kids" need to go back to school.[/quote]

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Social learning does not happen naturally, it needs to be taught and modeled. Just like throwing someone in the water won't teach them to swim, just mixing kids together won’t teach them social skills.  Kids who need help with social skills usually are the first to “drown”. They need to be taught “in a shallow area of the pool”, being surrounded by the friendly peers and adults is a huge huge help.

Conflict resolution is skill that is also needs to be taught. Just like with everything else, some people are more talented in social domain than others and need less support.

I like this thread on bullying  on Reddit. Read the first comment from the teacher. How many teachers like this do you know?

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/lnd42g/teens_who_bully_harass_or_victimize_peers_are/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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...looks like that is a thing which can only happen in-person, in schools.[/quote]

In person, but not necessarily in school. Some of you are unable to grasp that socializing and learning don’t have to happen concurrently.

While many children got traumatized by DL this year, as many if not more get traumatized by in-person school.

Many of the posts in this thread are ableist and ignorant. [/quote]

I strongly dispute your claim that more children are being harmed by in-person school. And, no one is trying to rip your babies out of your arms. Go, live your socially isolated life. Just don't take public in-person school resources to do it.[/quote]

Haha, my dispute is stronger than yours!

And why is your baby deserves the funding more than other people’s babies?

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