Stop destroying education ya fucking ghouls.
This just seems to be due to Covid closures, not even the gutting of school budgets across the country.
What do you mean by that?
I’ve been wondering if my 15 year old should repeat a year (they’ll kill me!), they’ve been falling behing majorly and still fail to attend a full week
Failing to attend a full week…will Gen Alpha finally bring the 4 (or even 3) day workweek to life out of necessity?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children.
This is a bipartisan issue, and parents, teachers and leaders in education have a role to play as well, in making sure that addressing learning loss and other persistent challenges facing children receives urgent attention.
The challenges have been compounded by an epidemic of absenteeism, as students who grew accustomed to missing school during the pandemic continue to do so after the resumption of in-person classes.
Millions of young people have joined the ranks of the chronically absent — those who miss 10 percent or more of the days in the school year — and for whom absenteeism will translate into gaps in learning.
This fall, The Associated Press illustrated how school attendance has cratered across the United States, using data compiled in partnership with the Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee.
“It is magical thinking to expect they will make this happen without a major increase in instructional time,” as the researchers Tom Kane and Sean Reardon recently argued.
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The majority of this seems to revolve around the disruptions COVID created and the ongoing effect. While I think a COVID response was necessary, it was significantly costly and poorly thought thru. Online education alone was particularly poor as an effective learning tool. In the older grades there was a significant number of people that doubly dropped out and it now appears the overall attendance in the younger grades that got use to simply not going to school has extended some to this day.
During the hight of COVID, people would argue that there was no cost great enough to protect us from this virus. On top of this, people thought we could implement this and that it would have little long term effects once we got past it. That simply was nieve thinking. Kids I believe will pay the most. Lower economic outcome and higher debt is the result. And those two means that much less money for healthcare. How many will die and early death because of that?
