Our teacher unions and fed and state medical bureaucracies strike again. Clearly, all about keeping the kids safe. If only we spent more money, the US could undergo an academic miracle.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/school-closures-crushed-our-children.php
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN
Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
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But we were told by a certain sativa enraged poaster that it was all just normal teenage angst
