Anonymous wrote:1000% we need to get rid of school Chromebooks. It is making kids lazy and teachers lazy. Oh, I have a 45 minute math block to fill? Here’s a few slides on the topic, a video someone else made, a link to an online assignment someone else made, and then a link to some online math games for the rest of the time!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:1000% we need to get rid of school Chromebooks. It is making kids lazy and teachers lazy. Oh, I have a 45 minute math block to fill? Here’s a few slides on the topic, a video someone else made, a link to an online assignment someone else made, and then a link to some online math games for the rest of the time!
I have brought up multiple times to the school that our kids have too much online learning.
My friend is livid because her child was getting good grades in math but lacks basic math skills. Parents had no idea the child was struggling. Multiple parents realized that this teacher doesn’t teach. It is like handing your kid an iPad so you can get a break except the teacher is handing your kid a Chromebook.
Anonymous wrote:1000% we need to get rid of school Chromebooks. It is making kids lazy and teachers lazy. Oh, I have a 45 minute math block to fill? Here’s a few slides on the topic, a video someone else made, a link to an online assignment someone else made, and then a link to some online math games for the rest of the time!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel like every parent who has kids with issues attributes them to the lockdown; whatever the age. I don’t see how staying at home for a year can alter every generation of kids so much. And if it was lockdown, why is it your kid and not all the kids in your kid’s grade?
I think that when we are seeing immaturity and learning difficulties across age groups it has as much to do with parenting, copious screens at home, and copious screens in school. Many parents think they’re “on” their children’s behaviors, but they aren’t. They let many many MANY things go and favor their children instead of the good of the group. If we went back to the school days before smart boards in the classroom and chromebooks in every hand, we would see better behavior. If kids weren’t handed iPhones at the store and iPads at restaurants to keep them quiet they would be better off. I don’t think it was the lockdown, I think it was the shift in parenting that came with it and that hasn’t gone back.
The bolded is an argument in favor of Covid having a significant impact, in my opinion. It was a major stressor event for some (but not all) parents, similar to a job loss or divorce, so heavily impacted how some people parented. And it causes many kids to be in screens much more often during the duration of school closures/hybrid schedules than they would have been otherwise -- some kids were using screens for school, entertainment, and socializing for the duration of social distancing, which for some places lasted a full year. If that happened during a key developmental time, I could see it having a long-term impact. Especially if combined with parents having their own mental health crises (these spiked during Covid).
I think my own kid weathered this ok but can understand why many kids might be struggling.
I agree that covid necessitated more screens at the time. But kids have been back in school for 2 years now, longer than the covid shutdown. And kids are screen obsessed. And they are on them a lot. At home and school. I am a teacher and I’m anti-screen. I do as much as I can on paper. But when 5th graders have their own phones and have tik tok and YouTube and constant access to social media—it’s destroying their mental health and their ability to sustain their attention…yet parents are afraid to take the phones away. There’s also a victim mentality culture right now (amongst adults), which feels exacerbated by social media. We complain about work being too much, we complain about the weather, we complain how the past changed everything. Teachers (and like I said, I am one) are complaining more than ever. Is it hard? Yes! But I feel like the complaining is making it worse. And we need solutions, not more complaining. Same with people who feel Covid messed up their kid. Sure there are some who were more profoundly affected than others. But please don’t discount the screens and lax parenting and shift from unstructured play to structured activities and sports teams being the focal point of many kids lives. And…nobody knows it their child would have had these same problems had Covid not happened. Depression, anxiety, learning disabilities, etc all existed before Covid.
It’s time to move on and stop blaming and start thinking of solutions. What can we do to get kids back on track? How can we hold boundaries so they feel safe? How can we have high expectations of them, while also letting them play and be children. My first suggestion is to take away their phones. And stop the chromebooks in school except for special occasions.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Socially/behaviorally, I think the issues are a result of the screen generation of parenting. Some kids are totally and completely screen addicted at shockingly young ages. Parents can't run into Target for 15 minutes without handing the kid a phone. The amount of kids using their computers at inappropriate school times is high. Defiance/ignoring of teachers is also high.
I work in an ES across multiple grades.
It’s sad to see babies or toddlers in a stroller out and about and they are watching a TV program. This has become so common. Then you see the ones with no screen and they are engaged with their surroundings, smiling at people, looking around. I just don’t get it.
I agree. And can’t go to a restaurant without a screen. My kids are 13 and 16 and no one did this when they were little even though we had the ability with our phones (esp with 13 yo). But 5 years after they were toddlers it was everywhere.
These kids are messed up from it - and then Covid screen deluge basically put the nail in the coffin bc at least before that, screens were minimally used in grade school so that was a brake to it all. No more.
Anonymous wrote:The 5th graders at our school are known as absolute monsters. Everyone knows it and can't wait to get rid of them. They've been that way ever since Covid, so I do think Covid really did a number on that particular cohort.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The most vulnerable children suffer from the slightest negative change in their environment.
My autistic kid, who was asocial before Covid, did not make the hoped for progress during the pandemic.
Am I blaming Covid or school response to Covid?
Not at all.
My other kids's development was not affected in the least! I recognize that this autistic kid of mine is fragile and that ANYTHING going wrong would have affected him, and will affect him in the future. He's just wired that way: we provide as much support and mitigation as we can, and when we're no longer able to help, he'll have to deal with things with the tools he has.
OP and others need to stop whining.
You don't sound credible.
You don't have perspective.
You're really not that bright.
How convincing...
The teachers who say they see the effects in many of their students don't have perspective and are dim? Can you hear yourself?
SMH
Anonymous wrote:My DS is in 5th and for him I think his handwriting is the only thing that has suffered. He wouldn’t have otherwise been using a laptop to do work in 2nd grade when that skill was really developing. We supplemented from the summer after 1st through the middle of 3rd with small group tutoring, I think that made a huge difference and has paid off in his math and reading.
I think a lot of the issues, regardless of grade, is that parents and adults were greatly affected more than we realize and it’s trickled down to kids.
Anonymous wrote:I have a third grader, and I think it affected their age group the most. He was in Preschool and then kindergarten during the lockdowns. I think the most long-term damage is kids who are currently 9 and 10 years old.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Socially/behaviorally, I think the issues are a result of the screen generation of parenting. Some kids are totally and completely screen addicted at shockingly young ages. Parents can't run into Target for 15 minutes without handing the kid a phone. The amount of kids using their computers at inappropriate school times is high. Defiance/ignoring of teachers is also high.
I work in an ES across multiple grades.
It’s sad to see babies or toddlers in a stroller out and about and they are watching a TV program. This has become so common. Then you see the ones with no screen and they are engaged with their surroundings, smiling at people, looking around. I just don’t get it.
I agree. And can’t go to a restaurant without a screen. My kids are 13 and 16 and no one did this when they were little even though we had the ability with our phones (esp with 13 yo). But 5 years after they were toddlers it was everywhere.
These kids are messed up from it - and then Covid screen deluge basically put the nail in the coffin bc at least before that, screens were minimally used in grade school so that was a brake to it all. No more.
Anonymous wrote:The most vulnerable children suffer from the slightest negative change in their environment.
My autistic kid, who was asocial before Covid, did not make the hoped for progress during the pandemic.
Am I blaming Covid or school response to Covid?
Not at all.
My other kids's development was not affected in the least! I recognize that this autistic kid of mine is fragile and that ANYTHING going wrong would have affected him, and will affect him in the future. He's just wired that way: we provide as much support and mitigation as we can, and when we're no longer able to help, he'll have to deal with things with the tools he has.
OP and others need to stop whining.
You don't sound credible.
You don't have perspective.
You're really not that bright.