“We are actively dealing with problems remote learning caused. A whole generation of kids is further behind than they were tracking to be behaviorally, mathematically, and in reading scores.”
Gee I wonder what would do that, is it three+ years of unmitigated exposure to a virus that causes brain damage? No, the problem is they stayed home, which makes you developmentally challenged, as we all know. Oh, you don’t want to get COVID? Then stay home.
The reason libs linked school so much, is because of the meritocracy myth. This idea of transcending your condition via education is deeply held and cherished by libs. And while this may be the case some times, it often isn’t. But it gives legitimacy to the regime.
One of the reasons they hate remote schools, it’s because it became obvious to many parents that there were 2-3 house of actual learning a day, and the rest was just messing around. That goes against the previously mentioned belief.
So blaming lockdowns for poor education outcomes is a straight forward reaction.
It’s sad to see many people here pedaling this bullshit.
I mask as soon as I leave my house and still get a fever every other month because we stoped locking down, when I used to be supper healthy.
We should be still locking down.
Poor performance is due to cellphones, lack of discipline, boring clases, school emphasis on other bullshit that’s not really educational, a cultural dislike of math, poor diets, general economic malaise, etc.
Two things can be bad simultaneously. You can say that the way lockdowns were implemented in USA were ineffective and also bad for students, and believe that covid also affects your brain.
It’s not hard for me to believe that a chronically underresourced institution that is subject to the political manipulation of bad faith actors didn’t respond effectively. Hell, kids in this country don’t even have access to the tools you would need to seamlessly go remote, I don’t believe enough steps were taken to make the transition work.
I agree that education institutions were always under resourced, and I think we are seeing the conveniences of that. the difference is that before the pandemic it was easier to hide, due to little parental supervision, afterwards it’s harder to lie to ourselves when we see that kids were mostly messing around.