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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids managed and came out ok. They're both very self-motivated so did fine on the academic side. I'm sure it's not what it could have been though. But as teenagers they missed out on some important things socially. Millions of kids had it worse.

But in retrospect, closing public schools for a year and a half - while privates were allowed to stay open, not to mention all of red America - was disastrous. Just read some of the comments here. We collectively decided to throw public school kids under the bus. Unforgivable. A complete societal failure.   
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Where were they closed a year and a half? In VA, it was March 2020 to March 2021.[/quote]

Can't remember the exact details for FCPS -- how soon we forget! --  but I think only about 60-70% of the kids went in person in March of 2021, and you needed to have signed up to go in person at the start of the year, and the kids who were going in person were doing it one day on one day off, with Monday a planning day. So things weren't entirely open.

For us, we absolutely lucked out for Kid #3, who we signed up to go to a private K the week before shutdown. They opened almost on time, did a great job, only a couple of weeks were virtual throughout the year. So he had not quite as good an experience as he could have had, but it was remarkably normal. Second year, though, we sent him back to public and he somewhat stagnated because so many of his new classmates had been stuck on the ipads for their K experience.

Kid #2's public school did exceptionally well with virtual school and in any case we ramped up supplementation. So she wasn't far behind where she would otherwise have been.

Kid #1's public school did a horrible job, and him + screens = inattention disaster. Supplementation could only go so far. We gave up midway through the school year and homeschooled; academically he may have wound up ahead of where he would otherwise have been. But physically he did very badly; closure of activities and sports leagues really hurt.[/quote]

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