If I were a schoolchild in 2020 and I was told that all of the fun parts like chatting to my friends, hanging out at break, eating lunch together, passing notes

If I were a schoolchild in 2020 and I was told that all of the fun parts like chatting to my friends, hanging out at break, eating lunch together, passing notes around in class etc were cancelled and I was going to sit in front of a screen at home for 6-8 hours for a year or more I'd have just dropped out then too. That's assuming that I even got to do that, since like many of the kids in the article, I wouldn't necessarily have a stable home connection or a desk or many of the things I needed to do "home learning". > Another Boston student became severely depressed during online learning and was hospitalized for months. Back home, he refuses to attend school or leave his room despite visits from at least one teacher. He's just checked out. Complete loss of respect for the entire establishment. It doesn't just come back magically when the hysteria lifts, we've still had no closure or even acknowledgement that what happened was insane.