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My kids go to a charter school. They went very hard on the online learning during Covid. Crazy amount of assignments. Lots of online time. As parents the workl

My kids go to a charter school. They went very hard on the online learning during Covid. Crazy amount of assignments. Lots of online time. As parents the workload was totally overwhelming to stay on top of everything. They ended up going back early because the test results were just atrocious even with how hard they were pushing. My wife teaches kindergarten there. There have been massive problems with the kids that came in that missed preschool during Covid. No idea how to share or interact with others. Had to spend a lot of time with basic life skills. Lots of students that had severe mental problems / disabilities that were completely missed since they missed preschool. Basically shutting down entire classes for months while various testing and placements were handled. Lots of “Jimmy is a genius” 4 months later. He has an IQ of 50. The masks also destroyed many students. Many highly depressed kids became happy cheerful kids once the masks were removed.

Solvency 3y ago
It's almost like deemphasizing personal health, nutrition, and thousands of years of natural human communal relationships, and focusing entirely on vaccines, social distancing, masks, and computers wasn't a good thing.
- heyoni 3y ago
  I think it’s a sign that the social fabric is deteriorating from so many angles that as a society, we’ve become unable to cope with any hardship at all. There is no reason why covid shutdowns and school closures means children can’t socialize. You could easily get 2-3 kids together under one roof for 3, 4 or 5 days if they’ve been tested 24 hours before. Everyone goes home, 2-3 days later, rinse and repeat. Small controlled gatherings like this should have doable but everyone is always too damned busy all the time…we’ve come to rely on the school system for all of their social interactions and used the extra free time we got as parents to just “work more”. It’s very clear to me from covid that what actually needs to happen is for the world to collectively slow the fuck down a little. And I don’t mean wipe out all ambitions but like, figure out what we value as a society and codify it rather than worshipping this bizarre work culture we have in the west.
  - nradov 3y ago
    There was no need for testing healthy children. It was totally pointless.

Solvency 3y ago

It's almost like deemphasizing personal health, nutrition, and thousands of years of natural human communal relationships, and focusing entirely on vaccines, social distancing, masks, and computers wasn't a good thing.

heyoni 3y ago
I think it’s a sign that the social fabric is deteriorating from so many angles that as a society, we’ve become unable to cope with any hardship at all. There is no reason why covid shutdowns and school closures means children can’t socialize. You could easily get 2-3 kids together under one roof for 3, 4 or 5 days if they’ve been tested 24 hours before. Everyone goes home, 2-3 days later, rinse and repeat. Small controlled gatherings like this should have doable but everyone is always too damned busy all the time…we’ve come to rely on the school system for all of their social interactions and used the extra free time we got as parents to just “work more”. It’s very clear to me from covid that what actually needs to happen is for the world to collectively slow the fuck down a little. And I don’t mean wipe out all ambitions but like, figure out what we value as a society and codify it rather than worshipping this bizarre work culture we have in the west.
- nradov 3y ago
  There was no need for testing healthy children. It was totally pointless.