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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so privileged, including my experience.  We did private and a pod and hired a reading specialist for my K student.  Of course he is fine.

Who was really hurt are lower-income students without family and financial support who were already disadvantaged and are now more so.  It’s unfeeling not to recognize that pandemic learning loss affects those most who can least afford to face it.  As a society we are failing the poor yet again but DCUMers are fine so let’s just not talk about it and/or pretend it isn’t happening![/quote]

Well, look at you!

I couldn't even dream of putting my kids in private even though they are a smart, hardworking bunch. Had no pod (no one near us to pod)  so it was a little isolated, though it helped that I had multiple kids to play with each other. And I was the reading and math specialist for my kid.

It was a lot of work so I can't say that "fine" would be a given as you would be able to assume for your child. I'm happy to say that they are fine.
I answered the question for this thread, we made it through okay. But having been raised in tighter circumstances when I was younger, I know it would have been disastrous if the pandemic had happened when I was a kid as maybe you don’t.

So what do you want? Yes, every awful thing in the world will hit the poor in a more disastrous manner (illness/pandemic/climate change.) 
So now that the small talk of how our kids are doing is over, what do you want done?
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That is the thing…you shouldered a lot of work.  So did I.  Our kids are fine.  The kids, as I said, WITHOUT FAMILY SUPPORT—which many lower income kids don’t have—are not OK.  The school systems need to supplement more to make up for the loss.  There is no one there for many of these kids at home.  My brother is a teacher in a low-income school…many of his students have parents on [b]meth and pills[/b], they aren’t helping with homework.  Don’t those kids deserve a chance like ours?  Social supports, like the extra COVID money, should be paid for and used by school systems.[/quote]

These kind of problems.. support from a school would be s few drops in the bucket. There absolutely needs to be aid for these kids, but not led by the education system. 
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Why not?  The [b]education system is the perfect place to deal with this by hiring and staffing[/b] before/after school programs, summer programs, etc so these kids have a safe place to go where they can get the extra academic support kids from functional households get from their parents.  Including access to therapists, mentors, etc.[/quote]

I'm not saying you are wrong, but that is not the structure in place now except in some local areas that decided to take this on. You are talking about weaving together resources to create a safety net for these kids. That takes fundamental change in how most people/municipalities view the educational system.

That should happen, but if just education takes the lead, you don't get adequate support for the concept and all you are left with is people like your brother pouring out their life blood for these kids trying to save them when really there should be support from the top down.
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