discussion School lockdowns erased two decades of progress in Math and Reading in the US

[Chemist]

 

 

[magazine]

This explains Jayden and Preston's recent behaviour towards Britney 

[shookspeare]

yeah I know some people who teach grade school and apparently the situation has gotten way worse than it was, and it was already bad

 

maybe republicans made a point here 

[xclusivestylesz]

Bullshit. The kids who wanted to learn would've still did so. 99.99% of students gave no fucks

[sherloid_bai]

12 minutes ago, magazine said:

This explains Jayden and Preston's recent behaviour towards Britney 

 

[LeMésTragique]

There's been progress in education in the USA?

[Mitsouko]

51 minutes ago, xclusivestylesz said:

Bullshit. The kids who wanted to learn would've still did so. 99.99% of students gave no fucks

[Jennifer]

Shocker. This is all on liberals and democrats. Almost all their Covid related policies were lies and nonsense but the ones related to schools and kids were far away the worst 

[Afterglow]

This is that right wing propaganda BS. That's literally impossible and sounds like something a Trumpster literally thought up and came out of that Trump Social app cave to spew into the world like acid. Gross.

 

The only time these people come out is to spread lies or watch that stupid Tom cruise propaganda movie.

Edited September 2, 2022 by Afterglow

[Communion]

The refusal to invest in funding for online remote learning by the federal government causes this, not lockdowns lol. 

[ClashAndBurn]

So I guess teachers and custodians and administrative staff were just supposed to go into work and die, then?

[rihannabiggestfan]

9 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said:

So I guess teachers and custodians and administrative staff were just supposed to go into work and die, then?

nnn, right?

 

Kari Lake and Scott Neely teas (what they said at the Arizona Governor debate)

[Bosque]

Not to mention the worst affected by far were the students who are already struggling, but suddenly the left seems to not give a crap about those. Almost like it's a bit difficult to do distance learning when the family doesn't have enough money for a laptop for every kid, and at least one parent who can work from a cushy home office and have an eye on the kids. 

 

School closures were a huge disaster and it's a bit frightening that some people still aren't willing to acknowledge that. 

[chessguy99]

16 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said:

So I guess teachers and custodians and administrative staff were just supposed to go into work and die, then?

I work in a child care center. During the school lockdowns, we ran  remote learning for 7 different schools from 3 school districts. We were there every day. We followed protocols, we still had people catch Covid, nobody died. The public school teachers deserve all the grief they are getting now. They had one job and refused to do it, while other had to do their jobs during the lockdown. 

 

[Communion]

7 hours ago, Dephira said:

Not to mention the worst affected by far were the students who are already struggling, but suddenly the left seems to not give a crap about those. Almost like it's a bit difficult to do distance learning when the family doesn't have enough money for a laptop for every kid, and at least one parent who can work from a cushy home office and have an eye on the kids. 

 

School closures were a huge disaster and it's a bit frightening that some people still aren't willing to acknowledge that. 

 

17 hours ago, Communion said:

The refusal to invest in funding for online remote learning by the federal government causes this, not lockdowns lol. 

How are you continually wrong and ignorant in nearly every post?

[katara]

23 hours ago, shookspeare said:

yeah I know some people who teach grade school and apparently the situation has gotten way worse than it was, and it was already bad

 

maybe republicans made a point here 

Lmao there is nothing that would make republicans more happy than education failing. Or have you not seen their recent attempts to turn schools into christian churches?

 

[ClashAndBurn]

2 hours ago, chessguy99 said:

I work in a child care center. During the school lockdowns, we ran  remote learning for 7 different schools from 3 school districts. We were there every day. We followed protocols, we still had people catch Covid, nobody died. The public school teachers deserve all the grief they are getting now. They had one job and refused to do it, while other had to do their jobs during the lockdown. 

 

And I'm sure none of you died since you were all 20 or 30 somethings in the prime of your life. Teaching is increasingly becoming an aging profession as fewer people go into it. It's a thankless profession, especially thanks to people like you. Teachers are having to come out of retirement to fill positions as a result of that. "They deserve all the grief they are getting." **** off.

[Alongoria13]

Still smarter than the average ATRLer 

[rihannabiggestfan]

2 hours ago, Communion said:

 

How are you continually wrong and ignorant in nearly every post?

[chessguy99]

4 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

And I'm sure none of you died since you were all 20 or 30 somethings in the prime of your life. Teaching is increasingly becoming an aging profession as fewer people go into it. It's a thankless profession, especially thanks to people like you. Teachers are having to come out of retirement to fill positions as a result of that. "They deserve all the grief they are getting." **** off.

Not quite. The child care industry is in the same situation as the schools. Half the staff is over forty in my center, including 4 over 50. Staffing has been very tough the past two years.

[GhostBox]

Not surprised .  It’s one reason why Virginia has a republican governor now. People were done with the lockdowns

[Raver]

Shutting down schools was a big mistake. Luckily that’s past us now. 
With vaccines available teachers are safe so there really is no need for students to wear masks in class or indoors. It’s sucks that some cities still implement those rules even if students are playing outside during recess or sports which is insane 

[Bosque]

3 hours ago, Communion said:

 

How are you continually wrong and ignorant in nearly every post?

Why don't all those poor 11-year olds just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and spend 6 hours a day in front of laptop teaching themselves the material that a teacher obviously can't cover because they are not in the same room together, while the kids' parents are both off at work? Oh, and **** all social interaction with other kids while we're at it. Not like that's an essential factor for learning and maturing.

 

Young children born during the pandemic displayed average IQ scores of 78, compared to the usual average of 100. The affect was worst for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

 

Please explain how this massive drop-off in children aged 1-3 was caused by a lack of investments in distance learning? 

 

Why do you want to literally genocide children from worse-off backgrounds who benefit the most from in-person schooling? 

Edited September 3, 2022 by Dephira

[Communion]

12 minutes ago, Dephira said:

while the kids' parents are both off at work? 

Sounds like people should have listened to progressives who said to continue monthly stimulus checks so parents could stay at home and only work part-time hours. 

1M covid deaths because no Medicare For All

Millions more facing permanent disability with no universal healthcare

Future waves about to be worse because the government soon won't ensure vaccines are free

Millions of children struggling because lack of funding in education and no UBI

 

Imagine how better our society would be if centrists were the political pariahs they deserve to be for causing all of this and progressives were the only ones in charge.

 

Edit - The swift edit 

Edited September 3, 2022 by Communion

[Bosque]

11 minutes ago, Communion said:

Sounds like people should have listened to progressives who said to continue monthly stimulus checks so parents could stay at home and only work part-time hours. 

 

So a world in which no one goes to work (hint: a lot of blue-collar people still had to go to work because you kind of need people to deliver goods, sell them, keep the infrastructure going, etc. Can't really stimulus check your way out of that) in order to avoid a respiratory virus (which, hint, is never going away) so they get USD 2000 per month from the money printer so they can teach their kids at home because their teachers refuse to go to work, so they can watch their kids' reading and math abilities atrophy and not interact with other human beings in person again. Since no one is working anymore, all this will be funded by magic money from the printer.

 

Surely even by your standards this is idiotic.