How Bad Was Learning Loss During the Pandemic?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/15/how-bad-was-learning-loss-during-the-pandemic/
The authors carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of learning loss over the first two-and-a-half years of the pandemic. ...
...students typically progress by about 0.4 standard deviations per school year, which means that school closures reduced learning by the equivalent of one third of a school year (a whole term). The authors characterise this as “substantial”.
... Existing research on teacher strikes in Belgium and Argentina, shortened school years in Germany and disruptions to education during World War II suggests that learning deficits are difficult to compensate and tend to persist in the long run.
If you have kids who were affected by lockdowns, seriously consider getting them Kumon or some other enrichment program to make up for what they lost. Mention why you are doing this to the kids themselves, so they know how badly the government screwed them over.
As SOGWAP pointed out, missing a semester or more of the public indoctrination camp doesn't seem like a loss.
If other parents stepped up and began educating their own children as many parents I know did and continue to do, the children would nearly always have advanced much further than the 0.4 SD per school year. The biggest and most lasting issue I perceive for the children is underlying trauma from the upheaval caused by lockdowns and stunted social growth.
My spouse is a Para in a middle school working with behavioral kids. They are receiving warnings from the elementary schools about the kids coming in next year being more out of control and way behind scholastically.
This shit is ruining an entire generation.