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There was no reason for this to happen. It was an hysterical and opportunistic response by the public health authorities and the teacher's unions. As the artic

There was no reason for this to happen. It was an hysterical and opportunistic response by the public health authorities and the teacher's unions. As the article stated, the schooling of the elites continued uninterrupted during the pandemic. COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes. Children aren't born civilized. It's the duty of families and the schools to civilize them. With the breakdown of the family over the last fifty years, more and more was dropped on the schools. They were supposed to provide education and increasingly many support services. When COVID struck, that responsibility was mostly abandoned for the lower and middle classes. Our institutions failed, for no good reason. People are trying to pick up the slack, but the way our society has been restructured, with both parents working, makes it very difficult to provide the education and supervision that the children need.

lapcat 4y ago
> As the article stated, the schooling of the elites continued uninterrupted during the pandemic. COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes. That's not what the article stated. "Students with household incomes above $200,000, in contrast, lost about 54 days—still considerable"
- MisterMower 4y ago
  And the very next sentence after that one: “Many elite private schools, meanwhile, avoided pandemic-related schooling loss almost entirely.”
  - lapcat 4y ago
    And the very next sentence after that one: "Of the Forbes top 20 private schools, our research found that 14 met fully in person for the entire 2020–21 school year." So, 6 of the top 20 private schools did not meet fully in person for the entire school year. Also, that's talking about 14 schools in the entire county, which is a minuscule number of schools and students. Moreover, what's the evidence for the claim that "COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes"? I'm not saying it did or it didn't, I'm just saying there's no basis whatsoever for this claim. Anyway, the issue isn't just the homes, it's the teachers. Who wants to die for a job? Nobody signed up for that.
    - wrycoder 4y ago
      If there had been a plague in elite homes, we would have heard about it. (And there aren't all that many elite homes.) Teaching school during the pandemic isn't some kind of death sentence. Teachers mostly retire before 65, and the vast majority of COVID deaths is people over 65. Solution - stay open, and if a teacher wants to retire at 55 - fund that fully, with Fed help, if necessary.
      - lapcat 4y ago
        > If there had been a plague in elite homes, we would have heard about it. Why? > And there aren't all that many elite homes. Ok, so why is there any general lesson here? And approximately how many homes are you counting as "elite"? > if a teacher wants to retire at 55 - fund that fully, with Fed help, if necessary I eagerly await this policy. Though it's too late for anyone in the 2020-2021 school year. And how do you plan to deal with the resulting teacher shortage? There's actually already a teacher shortage, because many decided to quit in the past couple years.
        wrycoder 4y ago
        > why Because we hear of everything COVID that helps to raise the fear factor. And, I don’t count teachers paid to sit at home as “teachers”.
        lupire 4y ago
        You mean that you don't count teachers teaching from home as day care providers?
        wrycoder 4y ago
        They count. It's the ones not teaching, just collecting.
    - yucky 4y ago
      >it's the teachers This is all it was ever about. The Teachers Unions showed their priority wasn't the students and I suspect that will never be forgotten. Some of us always knew that, but now pretty much everyone does.
- rayiner 4y ago
  My kid goes to a private school. Not only was it closed less time than the public schools, but when my second grade daughter fell behind in reading (because distance learning doesn’t work) she got private 1:1 tutoring every morning to catch up after returning to in person school.
cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Meet your average Millennial American office worker: generalizing, but it's a prevalent pattern: they tend to be 25 to 35, either party like they're 17 or are un-social hermits, mouth-off risking trouble in the real world, and are self-absorbed. It's the result of failures in education and parenting with extended adolescence, absentee parenting punctuated by helicopter parenting, and not enough challenges. Education needs to practically instill theory of mind, The Golden Rule, teamwork, cooperation, conflict resolution, life skills, and a foundation of knowledge and curiosity. If it can't do all of that and is going to obsess over standardized tests rather than excellence, then it's going to produce dysfunctional adults.

lapcat 4y ago

> As the article stated, the schooling of the elites continued uninterrupted during the pandemic. COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes. That's not what the article stated. "Students with household incomes above $200,000, in contrast, lost about 54 days—still considerable"

MisterMower 4y ago
And the very next sentence after that one: “Many elite private schools, meanwhile, avoided pandemic-related schooling loss almost entirely.”
- lapcat 4y ago
  And the very next sentence after that one: "Of the Forbes top 20 private schools, our research found that 14 met fully in person for the entire 2020–21 school year." So, 6 of the top 20 private schools did not meet fully in person for the entire school year. Also, that's talking about 14 schools in the entire county, which is a minuscule number of schools and students. Moreover, what's the evidence for the claim that "COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes"? I'm not saying it did or it didn't, I'm just saying there's no basis whatsoever for this claim. Anyway, the issue isn't just the homes, it's the teachers. Who wants to die for a job? Nobody signed up for that.
  - wrycoder 4y ago
    If there had been a plague in elite homes, we would have heard about it. (And there aren't all that many elite homes.) Teaching school during the pandemic isn't some kind of death sentence. Teachers mostly retire before 65, and the vast majority of COVID deaths is people over 65. Solution - stay open, and if a teacher wants to retire at 55 - fund that fully, with Fed help, if necessary.
    - lapcat 4y ago
      > If there had been a plague in elite homes, we would have heard about it. Why? > And there aren't all that many elite homes. Ok, so why is there any general lesson here? And approximately how many homes are you counting as "elite"? > if a teacher wants to retire at 55 - fund that fully, with Fed help, if necessary I eagerly await this policy. Though it's too late for anyone in the 2020-2021 school year. And how do you plan to deal with the resulting teacher shortage? There's actually already a teacher shortage, because many decided to quit in the past couple years.
      - wrycoder 4y ago
        > why Because we hear of everything COVID that helps to raise the fear factor. And, I don’t count teachers paid to sit at home as “teachers”.
        lupire 4y ago
        You mean that you don't count teachers teaching from home as day care providers?
        wrycoder 4y ago
        They count. It's the ones not teaching, just collecting.
  - yucky 4y ago
    >it's the teachers This is all it was ever about. The Teachers Unions showed their priority wasn't the students and I suspect that will never be forgotten. Some of us always knew that, but now pretty much everyone does.
rayiner 4y ago
My kid goes to a private school. Not only was it closed less time than the public schools, but when my second grade daughter fell behind in reading (because distance learning doesn’t work) she got private 1:1 tutoring every morning to catch up after returning to in person school.

cvccvroomvroom 4y ago

Meet your average Millennial American office worker: generalizing, but it's a prevalent pattern: they tend to be 25 to 35, either party like they're 17 or are un-social hermits, mouth-off risking trouble in the real world, and are self-absorbed. It's the result of failures in education and parenting with extended adolescence, absentee parenting punctuated by helicopter parenting, and not enough challenges. Education needs to practically instill theory of mind, The Golden Rule, teamwork, cooperation, conflict resolution, life skills, and a foundation of knowledge and curiosity. If it can't do all of that and is going to obsess over standardized tests rather than excellence, then it's going to produce dysfunctional adults.