American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions. In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.” Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
As previously stated, my youngest son spent most of the last two years of his schooling on some form of Covid restriction and at best had a "hybrid" form of school where they physically went to class only twice a week. In fact, school for my son's Jr and Sr year of high school was a four day school week with a free day (generally Fridays) to "catch up".
Ironically there was considerably "less" work assigned that my older boy had gotten at the same school a few years prior. So the idea that they did less in less time and were still allowed a day to "catch up" seems more than a little bit silly. The scoring for the math and reading requirements (district wide) was way down from where it had been. Like it or not, the kids did not learn what previous kids did.
Now whether or not that affects them later in life remains to be seen. I suspect that for younger kids who will struggle moving forward with being behind and possibly "still" in districts that are demanding certain restrictions and such are going to have a much tougher time long term. For many of those still in school and still having to deal with this on an ongoing basis, there IS a good chance that all of this will have a negative effect on society.
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Your extremely libertarian philosophy is very dangerous.
The children will recover eventually from the Covid-19 pandemic circumstances.
If we had not listened to the medical experts during the pandemic, hundreds of thousands more people would be dead.
Since you won't open a post to discuss this I, will be very careful to not overstate things. But we did face the most dangerous situation in our country's history.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee is set to highlight the way violent far-right extremists answered Donald Trump’s “siren call” to come to Washington for a big rally, as some now face rare sedition charges over the deadly U.S. Capitol attack and effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Trump’s multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s victory. As dozens of lawsuits and false claims of voter fraud fizzled, Trump tweeted the rally invitation, a pivotal moment, the committee said. The far-right Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others now facing criminal charges readily answered.
“We will lay out the body of evidence that we have that talks about how the president’s tweet on the wee hours of December 19th of ‘Be there, be wild,’ was a siren call to these folks,” said one panel member, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., over the weekend on “Meet the Press.” In fact, Trump tweeted, “Be there, will be wild!”
I suspect that we will see another extraordinary event exposed.
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So you're talking about our overreaction to Covid just at a time when it is becoming clear that we may have dropped our guard too much as new strains increasingly are threatening us.
You are always so out of step with reality.
Roger's first post above is spot on about this.
Democrats should be careful of what they wish for. DeSantis will be much tougher to defeat in 2024 than Trump.
Yeah, Ch. Don't be a coward. Give us a thread about TODAY'S Jan 6 hearing.
Harm our youth to “protect” the aged and infirm
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Yeah, Ch. Don't be a coward. Give us a thread about TODAY'S Jan 6 hearing.
Please do.
And then also open up a thread about Covid in general.
It would be nice to have a clean thread for once
and we will see if the cowards stick to it
their TDS is a stain on this blog
"DeSantis will be much tougher to defeat in 2024 than Trump."
Especially if Trump is in prison.
The children will recover eventually from the Covid-19 pandemic circumstances.
If we had not listened to the medical experts during the pandemic, hundreds of thousands more people would be dead.
Both are outright LIES.
The damage dome is lasting and irreversible. And the age group in question was never at risk.
The Teachers Union SCUMBAGS fucked hundreds of thousands of children because of their own insatiable greed.
The Pandemic's Wrongest Man: an occasional series
Educational fallout edition
The Economist, July 9, 2022:
“The damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected…”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-pandemics-wrongest-man-an-occasional-2b2
and wait until the damage done to kids by the experimental vaccines starts being accurately reported
The Atlantic: Schools' Masking Policy Has Imposed a Serious, Possibly Permanent, Devolopmental Delay On Many Students
The Atlantic published an article admitting the obvious:
The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from.
The early years of development are critical ones.
You don't get those back. These are critical years of development in which children's brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever.
There is no "Do Over" switch on a child's formative years.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398068.php
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/how-masks-get-way-speech-therapy-kids/623332/
Good job leftists. Those kids are fucked FOREVER.
So you're talking about our overreaction to Covid just at a time when it is becoming clear that we may have dropped our guard too much as new strains increasingly are threatening us.
Yes Reverend...
For a variety of reasons, first and foremost because Covid never had much of an effect on children to begin with...
and because as a parent, I want what is best for children... not what is best for teachers or politicians.
For those of you who are not parents.
Perhaps you should just leave your unimportant opinion on the subject to yourself.
...new strains increasingly are threatening us.
Right.
And it's called the Electorus Interruptus strain, it's scheduled to peak in mid to late September, and it will require the printing of a minimum of 500 MILLION mail in/drop box ballots.
Fool me once...
Yeah, Ch. Don't be a coward. Give us a thread about TODAY'S Jan 6 hearing.
Thread is available...
Now just keep the Jan 6th discussion to the thread I made and keep it out of the other threads!
Can the two of you do this... or are going to act like toddlers wanting attention and spam every thread?
Here you go, pederast.:
http://coldheartedtruthblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-disgusting-jan-6th-committee-caught.html
Why don't you and the alky jerk each other off over there.
From the very first, you excessively downplayed the life threatening seriousess of the pandemic and never condemned Trump's totally irresponsible spoutings of misinformation in his attempt to advance his own desire for grandiosity.
Trump lied and many died.
Fortunately, he was narrowly dissuaded from 'packing the churches' at a time when it would have been especially disastrous for even more of our citizenry.
Sorry Reverend...
Numbers prove out that way more people died under Biden and pretty much all the science shows that lockdowns and mask mandates did pretty much nothing.
So you just go ahead blowing smoke up Roger's ass and the two of you can circlejerk your lies together on the other thread.
I studied the numbers on the various medical websites and the tracking services... you just repeated politicians and media opinions.
I will take my information over yours.
Numbers prove out that way more people died under Biden and pretty much all the science shows that lockdowns and mask mandates did pretty much nothing.
It used to be everyone followed us but after Fauci and his response in 2020 the rest of the world is now moving on and ignoring him. They've learned.
I've heard Biden is considering re-instating mandates
The democrat party will not survive Biden
Hopefully America will
2023 should be the year of a course correction and bringing justice back to America
There is hope
The "safe and effective" narrative is falling apart
Here is my list of over 40 leading indicators that the momentum is moving in our favor. I'd be surprised if the narrative doesn't fall apart soon. It's now unravelling quickly in the UK.
Here is my list of over 40 indicators that the “safe and effective” narrative is falling apart.
It is a devastating list.
And for some reason, nobody wants to fact check me on it.
The vaccine deaths are now simply too massive to keep hiding/explaining them away:
Non-Covid excess deaths: why are they rising? Experts call for probe as mortality rates in England and Wales climb despite drop in coronavirus deaths
Excess deaths are on the rise – but not because of Covid
Office for National Statistics data leads health experts to call for urgent investigation into what is causing the excess mortality
England: Excess Deaths on the Rise But NOT because of COVID – Experts Call for Investigation
It’s happening in Ireland too! How can heart disease explode in kids only after they roll out the vaccines for kids? Experts are baffled as to what might be causing a sudden increase in heart disease for kids that is happening only in places that have rolled out the COVID vaccines for kids. It’s not happening to kids anymore in Uruguay for some reason (perhaps the judge stopping the vaccine program might have something to do with it).
all 40:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-safe-and-effective-narrative
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