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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Second,[b] the Covid online learning year really hit her hard.[/b] She took BC calc online in HS. She knew she didn't learn much so signed up for the equivalent of AB in freshman year. For whatever reason, that course was also online and she really struggled. The next year, she took the follow on class (equivalent to second semester of BC). It was in person and smaller and she went to see the TA and discovered that there were whole swaths of material that she didn't know that she didn't know. It was just missing from her knowledge base and she didn't know it existed. Once she learned it, she really turned a corner and is now majoring in applied math.

[b]So your kid is not alone-- freshman and sophomores are struggling nationwide. (I work at a university and the hallway conversations are usually about how badly kids are doing this year and last).[/b] Consider lightening her schedule somehow (adding an easy/less homework class to give her more time). See if you're allowed to transfer in summer community college courses, which might shore up her knowledge a bit. And of course, figure out how to make her take advantage of the services available.[/quote]

PP, thanks for posting this. I'm the PP whose kid is taking a break from college, and it helps to hear that there are others in the situation. It's not like I want others to struggle, but there seems to be something unique to the pandemic experience, especially students who learned remotely during their last years of high school, that has caused problems like disengagement and low motivation in a significant percentage of the student population. It's a mess because these problems aren't easily solved and colleges and universities aren't equipped to meet these students where they are. No one is. It will likely result in increasingly lower enrollment and fewer students getting degrees.[/quote]

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