COVID's education crisis: A lost generation?
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Students who were forced into remote learning because of the pandemic lost valuable time in class; one nationwide study shows reading skills have dropped to their lowest point in 30 years. With the added personal toll from COVID, this generation is facing a crisis of stunted learning and emotional turmoil. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with educators about what can be done.
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One thing left out here is something I saw with some students. They learned their parents couldn't be bothered with them or didn't really like them. You are home because of a pandemic, it was a struggle for so many, but imagine your mom or dad posting on Facebook about how annoyed they are that the school is closed and you are stuck with your kids? Some people were never meant to have children and covid put that in a big spotlight.
As far as academics they will get there. The bigger issues are the entitlement and lack of respect kids and parents show education. But that was going on looooong before covid. Does the education system need to be upgraded for future learning? Absolutely! The old 1950's model needs to go and so does the ridiculous amount of testing. Prek students should be learning how to share and how to tie their shoes and maybe walk in nature and learn about their environment. Writing a paragraph? Not yet.
This is so so sad :(
Correction - you are home because of government overreach, not a "pandemic".
We knew from day 1 that kids weren't susceptible to serious illness from covid.
You are spot on about the parents. I’ve never seen so many people admit to disliking/being annoyed by their own children. And the kids pick up on it too. Extremely sad.
Sadly, you are right. I let go of my entire friend group because of how they parented in 2020. It was heartbreaking. Social media became a place to post your children’s meltdowns. Dear God, please help us!!!!!!!!!
And yes, as a former Kindergarten teacher, I full heartedly agree that Kindergarten should be about relationships and connection and PLAY!!! Please stop forcing so much on our children!!!!!
I completely stopped working to take care of my 3 kids and still have not returned back to work. We have homeschooled (not virtual school. Hands-on, I'm the teacher) for the past 3 years. My kids still have to do testing and they are testing 2 grades above their grade level. Yes, I'm very privileged to be able to make this choice. But we still barely make ends meet. For me, keeping my kids healthy, safe and educated was my priority and I love being with them. If there is a silver lining to the pandemic it's that I have been blessed to spend my time with my kids and have the relationship with them that I wished I had with my own parents.
Let’s be honest, most parents just see public schools as free babysitting.
Hidesert004, ,I completely agree with your assessment and everything starts in a home, but trauma and chaos eventually spill out in the streets and into the schools. I don't know how teachers deal with the madness everyday as babysitters.
cant be free when the parents are paying for it
Well not free, just paying for babysitting for 7 hours a day with your taxes
@@autobotdiva9268 Oh let us rephrase it "Heavily Reduced Daycare".
The No Child Left Behind policy contributed a lot to low performing children advancing when they should not have.
I think the government secretly wants kids to be dumb because then unqualified politicians can run again for re-election and they don't have to worry about protests for them to do better
They took God out of schools
@Shaolin Soldier good.
@@Shaolin91z God was never in the schools. Try again.
No child left behind meant that every child is left behind
As an educator, I saw many problems taking place during covid that contributed to all of this. 1. We were forced to teach in a very new with little time to create an effective plan for doing so. We were on spring break and never went back to the classroom. They expected our virtual school day to look exactly like a face to face school day, which was ridiculous. In my opinion, it would have been the perfect time to have small groups and one on one sessions with students. 2 We were stressed out because the district was more concerned with keeping track of what WE were doing every single minute of the day instead of us allowing to focus on our mental health and just teaching our students. 3. Students still had to take major assessments online. Why were we assessing students is beyond me. It was business as normal during a time of crisis. 4. When we returned to the classroom in the fall, they treated everything as though NOTHING had happened. There was no revamping of the curriculum, remediation, or intervention to address skills that students never learned. Covid is one of the main reasons I am no longer a classroom teacher. It was the push I needed to work in other areas of education. Good luck to those of you who are still in the trenches.
Them acting as if nothing happened is so relatable. After I came back to school after a year and a half of not being there, they decided to make us do state testing to determine how much education we lost. Because giving children who’ve just got back to school three 40 question state tests is a great way to start off the year
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J.Johnson- Thank you for your years as an educator. You are greatly appreciated and I am sure missed by those whose lives you impacted. Be blessed.
I worked at a Catholic school where they never stopped in person learning and still the kids are not doing well; they’re are so many factors that were already in play. We have a generation of poorly behaved kids who couldn’t care less about learning and that along with other factors are driving teachers out of the schools. Crisis meets crisis.
Discipline, curriculum, and imagination have all dropped because of political shenanigans. The adults are not in charge. Nor are many parents.
Because these kids are running their parents lives. They need to be a parent and take their house back
Yes, blame everything on the pandemic. Things stunk before then. The parents are absent mentally. Many of them are on drugs and alcohol. I am so glad I have no kids..Then we have a government who promotes entitlements and lots of food stamps..Why learn and get a job??
@@ameliaerin1544 The vast majority of people on food stamps work full time. Don't be so quick to write people off with your false narratives. I work with these kids. If people knew the poverty and conditions they are coming from, they'd stop preaching their nonsensical "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" BS. Much of the problems in schools were created by gutless administration and politicians preaching to the choir. They dumbed down curriculum and halted reasonable discipline. The parents certainly don't help at times, but administration set the standards. Or lack of.
Well, preaching fantasy, banning books and actual history, banging underage students, and pumping AR-15s into mass shooter hands ain't helping.
My Wife is approaching 30 years as a teacher and she feels the pandemic hurt a great many children psycho-socially, as school was the one place they could come and be safe, have meaningful interactions and relationships with others. As well as them getting fed something of substance twice a day. There are very large number of dysfunctional households in the average school district and some localities are much worse than others. The children from those homes desperately need to be around their peers, who may have positive influences and who will hopefully be in support of their not so socially adept friends.
Your wife can only thank the union she pays dues to.
Very true.
I woudln't call a school meal "of substance"
@@karbonkillershorts8551 it is better than what the parents give them, if anything.🙄
@@karbonkillershorts8551 Its better than the nothing/next to nothing that's on the table at home.
As a teacher, one big setback for younger kids has been developing social skills, and forming peer relationships is one of the hardest challenges .
True for teens, as well.
I agree. A lot more kids (preschoolers) with speech delay than before. My son is one of them.
Yes. But what are the media and politicians talking about? How SEL is socialism. Utterly absurd.
Absolutely- isolation does not manifest EQ
That's BS
As a high schooler during the pandemic (now a community college student), I agree with a lot of what was said. Me personally, I fell into a huge depression hole during the pandemic. I was an excellent student before, straight As, lots of motivation to work hard, and during covid I failed all my classes, never turned in assignments, so much so that I stopped caring at all. I no longer felt fear or remorse when I didn't do my work or attend class. To this day, I am struggling to stay motivated. It wasn't the pandemic, in particular, that created this laziness in me, but the idea that none of this would matter in the end, because look how easily life was flipped on its head and people were suddenly dying. I knew people who died that spent their entire lives devoted to one company or one lousy field of work. I don't want that to be me, and at the time school felt like a one-way ticket to that kind of life. Overall, I'd say kids nowadays are just lacking the drive to keep going, to be respectful, to do anything worthwhile at all. Life feels so meaningless sometimes. Covid proved that.
Me right now.
And everything at fault is being put on the teachers to try and fix while still underpaying, undermining their ability and their worth, and understaffing their schools.
Schools shouldn’t have closed.
When I talk to the students I work with, they are aware there is a lot they do not know and they are "ok" with that. They tell me the system will just let them pass anyway. I am concerned. As a parent- why not give your child home work each night: Learn the multiplication tables, Write a paragraph each night about their day, Read a book for 30 minutes and ask them about what they read. As a parent, step in and support your child academically and emotionally. Get them off the computer, Tick Tock, Tv, Movies. Have your child read books. Real books. For me, I believe the parents need to be parents and help their child learn. Not all parents do that. They say "You the teacher- that is your job. Not mine." Students need to understand their education is important- Who can help them understand that better than their parent????
Agreed - it's a collaborative effort between the teacher(s) and the parent(s). It reminds me of the quote "it takes a village to raise a child"...that village includes both the teacher(s) in school AND the teacher(s) at home.
Unfortunately many people who had kids, should not have!
@@KindlyKhari I agree.
@@ameliaerin1544 I agree.
Agreed!💯
My 5 year old has never been to a traditional school, just virtual and music classes. Her development is amazing, she’s reading and writing, makes friends easily and is full of life. This required intensive parental commitment, something that many parents are just unwilling to do. But I also understand that I’m in a privileged position where only one of us needs to work full time and we have access to technology. Obviously, parents in less stable financial positions do not have that kind of ability to parent so hands on and I feel for them.
Yup. Most kids would actually thrive in a remote environment if they had some structure and parental guidance. Most of the kids who are struggling don't have that and instead want to blame covid, the teachers, etc. Why don't we ever blame the parents?
@@cspan1993 that's why things look bleak. Parents never take responsibility for anything.
Privileged, lol. The entire second half of your post is you assuaging your white guilt.
Why would you say you are in a privileged position?
@@davidpaz9389 Because my partner and I don't need to work at the same time right now. It's not a financial need. When she gets older, yes, as we get older and need more income to save for retirement. But at the moment, which in my opinion is the most critical moment-her formative years-we are both available to her practically 24/7. We have invested into her fully. Every decision we have made has been to benefit her development. At the sacrifice of our needs sometimes. But we're in our late 40s and have lived a lot of life, so we don't mind sacrificing. That's I think where our privilege lies.
The dystopia we have created from simple indifference on almost every level is breathtaking. The gun crisis alone is making existing in this country a struggle. These kids are attempting to exist in a nation where casual mass violence is now an acceptable norm. The damage to the psychological health of these children, and adults, is incalculable. Covid accelerated an already dizzying drop in intellectual, spiritual, and societal norms. America is in a very poor state. Why? The conversation is being led by the infantile and self-serving. Where are the adults?
well said
Turn off the TV!
@@georgewidger2306 Thanks for the info, George.
@@georgewidger2306 yeah that’s the last thing that should be done.
Very well said
I think a big problem is that kids came home and did not have a support system similar to a teacher in the classroom. Whether it was a mom and dad that had to work either at home or out of the home or a mom or dad that just didnt care to help or ones that could not help. I kept my son out of 3K and preK because of the pandemic and he started Kindergarten last year and is excelling. I did my best to prepare him for what I knew he would be doing and I felt like it was a little in adequate but his teacher is amazing and he is excelling in reading and math as a Kindergartener. Its the support system that is the backbone of the child's learning potential and ability. Now parents who had to work while their kids were at school at home was I'm sure a hard thing to juggle. I do not believe that extending the school day will help. My son is in school from 8:30 to 3:30 and getting him home, homework done, some play and dinner is ALL we have time for in the afternoons and taking time away from that after noon or taking time away from sleeping is not the answer! I think America has a bad idea that more time in the classroom is the answer with a lot of Europe does not operate this way and they have great results historically. Kids are not meant to sit in a classroom for that long. And I am seeing that first hand because for 2 days the kids have not gone outside because of bad weather and I saw behavioral issues this afternoon that I usually don't deal with. I don't have all the answers but this is my experience.
Exactly. I did some work in a 1st grade classroom before the pandemic, and you could definitely tell by their behavior which days they had not had PE and the days that recess had to be held inside. Getting out of school later definitely puts a strain on the kids if it's not balanced with more movement time. And if the kids get out of school much later than they already do, that also takes away valuable time that they could be spending outside, especially towards the middle of the school year.
I don't think the fears and psychological effects on kids during the pandemic were addressed once they returned to the classroom. There is still a complete disconnect about the need for mental health professionals in the schools. If you don't address their mental health issues brought on by the pandemic, you have no chance of kids being able to focus on the reading and the math, etc.
The COVID Funds that went to schooIs shouId have provided psychoIogicaI and mentaI heaIth services to students and their famiIies over the duration, but as with any TAXPAYER funding, schooIs used it in their budgets for many IittIe extras that were NOT that. OveraII, yes, the PARENTS are responsibIe for their chiIdren, but COVID was a nationaI and gIobaI crisis, so funds shouId be MADE AVAILABLE to parents and/or caregivers of chiIdren to get care over the COVID years.
@@katejackson4142 yes, the parents are unstable, so how can the kids be stable?
@@ameliaerin1544 good point. That's why mental health issues need to be addressed early on in life, like I said. Raising a healthy, well adjusted child into a healthy, well adjusted adult takes more than just the parents involvement. Because sometimes the parents need help themselves. Help they may not even realize they need.
@@katejackson4142 I agree . Parents need to get their kids some help on their health issues. When I was in school I never had that situation . But kids today it’s time to fix this mess and get them help
They took God out of schools 🤟
I am a high school teacher. Lots of parents demanded schools to be open, but now that they are, many can't be bothered to send their kids to school. Some parents have contacted me *demanding* tests and classwork so they kids can do it at home and not come to school! Some have nothing to say when I tell them if homeschooling may be a better option for them. I truly worry about the future. More than ever, people are proud to be ignorant and anti-science.
People use to tell me my homeschooled children would be "unsocialized". Honestly I think they're better socialized than public schoolers because we still lived life as normal and met with our group of friends, social distancing and masked. They never missed socializing and had the same level of support as before the pandemic.
If there was methods in place for that in the first place. I've known parents who homeschooled then didn't even school their child or put them in online curriculums to begin with 😢
I've known lots of others who never went out and socialized their kids.
They took God out of schools 🤟
@@Shaolin91z Good
The mere fact that you bowed to the restrictions is laughable.
We homeschool because we do not want our kids in the public bully system where no kid or teacher are ever held accountable nor will we be slaves to a teachers union
I am currently a high school student, and I am a 4.0 student. I just ask for adults to hear my take, alright?
I used to think grades and academics were really important and I had a lot of interests. However, by the time I made it to high school, I was so fed up with the day-to-day structure and the lack of freedom I had. Students are told to sit still for six hours a day, and the only time students are allowed to socialize is during their lunch break, there aren't enough breaks to pee or just relax. My school starts at 7AM so I usually stay up until midnight doing my homework only to wake up six hours later. I don't have fully active parents so I buy the school lunch which is usually just a pizza slice. I live in NY so I cannot say my situation is like other kids in other states, but without a phone high school is miserable. I am so exhausted all day long in classes I don't get to choose to take. My phone gives me motivation when I listen to music, text my friends during boring classes, and whatnot. That is the culture of high school now.
The weird thing is that adults will disregard kids' feelings when talking about high school. "Oh, I had it worse" and whatnot. Kids don't want to hear that. Kids need to learn and grow but the way the public education system is set up is for children to sit in a chair and be yelled at when they act out of line. And when they have ONE source of freedom and privacy (their phones!!) People want to take that away.
Adults want to immediately blame phones and social media- and yes I do think that plays a part- that is not what is majorly at fault. We need to change schools, we need to change the curriculum, we need better teachers, we need better mental health advocacy, and we need better PARENTS.
Public education is rigged and unfair and I am tired of people only talking about it instead of doing anything!
I'm 40 and I think public schools is a waste of time! I homeschooled two daughters one graduating at 15 and one at 16. They spent as little as two hours a day doing school work. I currently homeschool two children. My 15 year old is completes school in a hour. My 5 year old about 15-20 minutes. I can't go without saying I also homeschooled my 8 year old that passed away. He taught me never let school work get in the way of play ❤ As far a social skills well I tried to be socal in school but got in trouble for talking lol.
I hear you. I do. However please listen to adults when we say that there is an unhealthy dependence on phones. School has always been boring to most kids. Life will not always be exciting. However, students are not showing signs of perseverance and are really apathetic towards school and home. You will be required to do things in life that you don’t want. Kids need to have the proper coping skills to manage that does not involve a phone. I know that’s not what you may want to hear but it’s very true.
@@britd.1152 You’re right but I think phones are now just a part of society and people are going to have to accept it. Nothing is going to stop children from going onto the internet. There are problems in that area, I do agree, but I don’t think that’s the direct problem to the public education system. I think one cocern is that all parents aren’t inherently good parents..
So is it a schools job to raise those children into happy well rounded good moral people like parents are supposed to do, or does school have to fill in that place? I think that’s what we have to consider and what do we do to combat the needs of the children in this country.
@@britd.1152 Isn't school supposed to help you learn? Why is it so boring if it's supposed to ignite one's creativity and get them prepared for the real world? Why must we do something we don't want to do that'll consume a large chunk of our childhood - a crucial time in life mind you?
@@Jennifer-1724 I agree. A lot of kids fell through the cracks before the internet. Public schools cannot manage the amount of kids it has to serve. However when schools need support from the community and politicians, it is met with very little. Something has to give.
As a public high school science teacher, I echo the word CRISIS. That's all I'm saying, publicly. Mom and Dad... look inwards at yourselves. How involved are you in your child's academic performance?
I think the problem is parenting or lack thereof.
So true. Many parents would rather pop them an iPad and let them watch shows on the iPad to babysit them and then whine and complain about their children on facebook when they act out than do the hard work of parenting them. Like why did you have kids in the first place?
Agreed! And they use Covid-19 as the scapegoat.
They talked about solutions in school but no solutions for what parents should be doing.
this is such a cop out
@@YourMom-rg5jk no it isn't lol. Parents are just horrible now.
@@meech37 it is a cop out. Have you met every parent in the world? Unless you have then you can't sit and say this is all the parents fault.
If missing a couple of years of school while still having online school means "a generation" is lost, your problems are bigger than missing school.
Did kids lose "how to learn" ? Did they lose how to balance a budget? Did they lose how to build a light bulb? What exactly did kids lose so much of that it's a generation lost? History? geography? algebra? ... yeah all things that can be easily learned outside of school and I'm guessing more accurately and easily than in school.
It is we grown ups that are bemoaning something that's easily fixable because we put too much emphasis on knowing certain stuff by a certain age, instead of teaching kids how to live in life, how to research, how to learn... luckily lots of kids are figuring it out by themselves in the age of technology.
TruIy a great point of view and comment. So few appreciate such vaIues, many are the distracted away from such vaIues. Much of my career has been in teaching, part in AIternative Educations because I embrace the vaIues you have so eIoquentIy stated here. BIessings.
I agree with you in older kids, like grade 6 and above. They should be able to learn on their own. There are books and internet that can offered free resources.
But Little kids need this initial steps to learn social skill for part of emotional development. I have a preschooler who started school this year. I teach him the basic at home, when he started school, his teacher said he is two grade above his peers. The thing he is lacking is social development since he was sheltered during COVID. Social aspect is something I cannot fully help him because he need to socialize with other kids. COVID causes many young kids to be speech delay in which my son is. He improved a lot after couple of months at school.
@@annat6249 Do you consider your child part of a "loss generation" because he has in the now a slight speech delay? But is ahead in other areas? I'm certain that NO you don't. If every kid lost 2 years how can they be behind? My boy is 11 and severely asthmatic so hasn't gone to school in 2 years... seeing him grow without peer pressure has been a treasure.
This!🎯
We do need to remember that kids move to the USA from war torn countries (out of school for years) and manage to catch up academically by their 20s. The scary thing is the kids who have home lives that do not support the ability to catch up. There are kids who aren't reading in middle school and continue to be passed through the grade levels. If they do not read by the time they graduate high school there is a huge problem.
The problem with education in this country is it's always been about what the adults want the children to learn, not what they need to learn. The school day is based around an outdated 9-5 routine parents had. And I've seen people older than the hills refuse to allow them to update or build new school buildings because they want their grandkids and great grandkids going to the same schools they went to. Yet they don't want to pay school taxes. We need to do things totally different. Kids today suffered through Covid and threats of active shooters. Who cares if they're not learning cursive?
They need to bring back the trades for hs students.
I agree my little brother is about to graduate and he doesn’t even know how to sign his own name
@@HisEmoKitten1-28-16 they stopped teaching cursive a long time ago. And folks today can't sign their own name.
As a high schooler who spend the latter part of 8th and all of 9th grade online, I think the problem is the lack of effort on the part of the children. Of course online classes are not ideal, but the more pressing issue is that these children are not being taught by their parents the value of education. As many have already stated, this mentality is more of a problem than online school was.
So it’s not the children’s fault; it’s the parents’ fault. But we also must take into account that parents were struggling too. So many parents rely on school to be where their children are taken care of because they can’t afford to stay at home.
It’s not education though I graduated almost 5 years ago and it wasn’t until college I actually learned things that I found applicable for life or was taught more in depth and not just enough to get a good grade on a test… a lot of middle and highschool it wasn’t education for the long term it was cram this theory or this concept in your developing head and pass this test doesn’t matter if u find it relevant or interesting you have to get good grades so u get into a good collage and get a good job because that’s the only way you will ever be able to become something especially in this country and that’s wrong is unfair and it’s wrong who wants to live like that?
Thank you for your honesty!
Agreed. We had to make our kids get up and attend remote school
A fifth grade teacher told me that a lot of kids in her class can't multiple, divide, or use manipulative etc. They are so behind. Its sad.
Fifth grade teacher here. Trying to teach these basic skills-you’d think I was asking them to build a nuclear power plant. Zero perseverance. Never had these problems until after COVID.
It is true.
As an academic tutor, this story truly matches what I have seen this year. It’s so bad that for my high school students, I can tell what classes were virtual and what were in person.
I do believe we’ll be dealing with the fallout until today’s kindergartners are out of college.
Then what? More school shootings?
Trump warned you all what what was going to happen if we shut everything down, and he was bashed for it. "Listen to science" they said.
Places that didn't shut down are miles ahead of places that did shut down.
And here we are...
@@TheBandit7613 "I told you so" doesn't solve the perceived issue.
You have "job security". These kids were unstable way before the pandemic!
My mother is a public school teacher, and she has seen the effects of COVID up close and personal in her school. I believe that students should have repeated the grade they were in during the lockdowns. That way, they could have been able to make up for the lost time.
I 100% agree with you, but that would have required the entire nation to agree instead of a district here and a district there, and that never would have happened. Heck, covid restrictions were different from one jurisdiction to another.
@@HighwayLand I honestly feel that the school year should be longer. I've looked at what public schools in the UK do, and they have longer school years with multiple breaks in between.
Great idea, Punish the kids for something they could not control. Let's also start spanking them when it rains.
Teacher here. Not aII students had Iost their skiIIs. Some did master grade IeveI content and as a resuIt, deserved to move on to the foIIowing grade. What SHOULD have happened was have mid-summer and in the FaII, upon returning to schooI, aII students take a grade IeveI BASICS TEST of MASTERY to decide IF they shouId advance to the next grade. Pressure over the summer wouId have been incentive to make sure skiIIs were mastered and invoIve practice to keep Iearned skiIIs up. SchooIs and the private industry can provide tutoring and psychoIogicaI heIp (COVID FUNDS to SchooIs wouId pay for that!).
But that is the IogicaI way to run education. I did that for years teaching and running a Community SchooI for grades K through 12! My students were successfuI as a resuIt of doing that.
I agree with you- They definitely needed to repeat their grade to make sure they were prepared for the next step.
What a crock. It's been this way for years. Kids are allowed to not do the work. This is some odd fear-mothering.
Wow. My kindergartener scored in the 90thish percentile in both math and reading this year. During lockdown we took neighborhood walks every day for an hour. Dad and our dog came with us. My son has ADHD. I put him in a nationally recognised tutoring center. He went from D's to B's in math. It's all about the parents. Parents maybe stressed, tired. Suck it up. Your kids need you.
This just stresses public school teachers out and feel like it’s their fault. 😢
And still pay them peanuts, while white collar criminal executives make $ 10's of millions.
And it sure wasn't. It was their parents fault
@@susannpatton2893 Yep💯
They took God out of schools 🤟
@@Shaolin91z they took punishment for doing wrong away.
That stock photo of the old classroom was just ridiculous. No classroom looks like that anymore.
Ideas: Extend the school year. Extend the school day to add more sports, art, music, and socialization time. Put away the screens and read to kids, let them play together in unstructured outdoor activities. Pay and hire teachers.
Great ideas
Also-state funding needs to be given to the local school systems to spend how it is best utilized for the local schools & communities. I’m the mom of a 21 & 13 year old-oldest was a senior when lockdown happened & youngest was in 4th.
The cell phone (UA-cam, tik-tok, instagram) is the problem! This is why I didn't allow my son to have a smart phone until he was almost 18.
@@breal7277 you are a responsible parent.
At my middle school a few years ago they collected our phones until the end of the day. Small charter schools for the win
@@breal7277in my area the are 3rd grade students (8-9) with like iPhones
When this happened in March 2020, my 4 year old was out of preschool until remote learning in May 2020 and then did remote learning Sept 2020-June 2021 for kindergarten and finally stepped in person for first grade in Sept 2021!!!! Like wow 2 whole years without peers???? It wrecked her social skills. She was outgoing and lively in preschool to scared of not wearing a mask at 6 years old and scared to be close to peers.
Your school did this
I had a friend who asked this question. I advised them to delay starting kindergarten. They did and it really helped. They were due to start school in fall 2020 and they delayed until fall 2021. Our district returned to normal instruction as soon as the state allowed it. By fall 2021 it was approaching “normal”
@@charliesmash not always. Our district and teachers wanted to hold in person school. The state levied some restrictions on operations. By spring 2021 we were transitioning to normal school and had fully returned by that fall. Other districts in our area stayed remote though and the data shows a serious impact. Our students in our district lost far less than ten neighboring district who stayed remote for much longer
I’m curious about the research referred to in the piece. When it states that scores are the lowest in 30 years, are we comparing the same tests taken 30 years ago? I’ve been teaching for 18 years, and our “standardized” tests have changed multiple times. Each time, the material tested has got more rigorous. For instance, when I began teaching, students were asked to just identify a fraction’s name based on a picture. Now, they are asked to identify equivalent fractions and given no visual. Changes like this make comparing standardized tests over time a moot point. So…I’m curious how valid the comparisons in this piece are. I’m also curious if anyone is actually considering the validity of these comparisons.
I’m not implying that the effects of COVID aren’t real. They are. I see it every day in elementary school, but I do question how closely those results are tied to COVID alone as I have seen many troubling trends escalating since prior to the pandemic. The pandemic seemed to just exponentiate them.
I am a teacher and this is absolutely true.
It’s almost like we are social creatures and living through/growing up in an unstable time has created a generation of traumatized children who are acting out because everything is falling apart around them. Who would have thought!
Homeschooling is a beautiful thing
My kid is three. He missed the peak of the COVID affected classrooms but in twenty years or so he will be competing against other present day kids that were affected by it. My hope is that I help him and teach him as much as I can outside of school to give him an edge on others who will still be struggling from the substantial gaps in education brought about by COVID.
That mental health statistic is absolutely chilling. 🙁 So if they want longer school days and summer school, what does that do to the already burned out teachers?
Kids are absolutely exhausted at the end of school day. Keeping them at school longer would be useless. Teacher burnout is very real when talking longer school years. I suspect you would still need to give like 2 weeks off in July and then return to the classroom.
Highschool teacher here. From what I have seen the kids just don't care anymore. The amount of apathy is astounding. They rather just sit and watch ticktock all day. However I don't really agree with his ideas to fix this. I can barely get my kids through an 8 hour day, nevermind longer than that. Plus being open in the summer doesn't work for every school and I think here in Wisconsin where summer is very very short you would get a lot of backlash. I think the school needs to change by making the curriculum more relevant for the kids careers and not just a blanket curriculum approved by the state.
What can school offer kids that TikTok can't?
We should just get rid of public education altogether.
@@jadapinkett1656 cool. Ok so how are they going to learn to read, write, and do basic math? Most parents I know work full time so homeschool isn't for everyone plus not everyone can afford private schools. Just tossing out public education altogether is not a viable solution.
@@lynellestagman2604Seems like a business opportunity. If I were a bright young college graduate, I'd find some unused strip mall space and start my own school. Tell parents, you want your kids to learn the 3 R's? I can do it for a fee.
@@NJGuy1973 I've seen that tried. Most for profit schools close within a couple of years. Plus many parents can't afford tuition. In the US our current literacy rate is about 96% but with your model it would plummet and with that the poverty gap would widen.
I feel like more people have become sociopaths since the pandemic. I see it all around me.
True of my neighbor who used to be really nice.
Deaf/ HOH kids have also had significant challenges since the pandemic. Many of the online classes are not closed captioned.
When covid hit, we took our daughter out of school. We didn't want her to miss a ton of school and deal with them opening and closing constantly. (Which they did)
Once we had her home, my husband and I realized how little she actually knew. She was so far behind her grade level and her writing was atrocious.
Since then, she's been homeschooling for the past 3 years and absolutely thriving. She's a grade level ahead, and her attitude has completely changed for the better. This pandemic was sort of an eye opener for us, and just how terrible our public schools are in the area.
I'm sure this isn't the same for children in other places, but I'm happy we can give her a better education at home.
What grade was she in when you guys took her out? I'm glad you helped her.
@@DarlingStudent 4th. The entire day was centered around tablets and video learning. She never brought work home so we could actually see what she was doing; and the tablets stay at the school until they hit 7th grade.
@@DarlingStudent our schools are overwhelmed with students, so tablets are the only way they can teach kids. One teacher for 40 students is not good for learning or kids that struggle. It's so bad, they've turned the cafeteria and halls into a classrooms. No one votes for the levies or bonds and that means no new schools.
Unfortunately, class sizes and behavior are really affecting student learning. Most classrooms easily have 1/4 (or more) of the students who are so out of control that the teacher's time is taken up tending to all of the fires and instruction time is greatly reduced.
@@KatieBellino I agree. Our daughter is a quiet, good student. She had a lot of anxiety being around so many kids and it was distracting when they were loud or acted out. I'm just glad we have the ability to homeschool.
I hope a 2nd segment comes out focusing on adult mental health and the impact on children, the huge problem of divorce or single motherhood where 1 biological parent is absent, childhood trauma and how that leads to a higher risk of drug abuse and mental health issues.
Women don't need men. Single mom is great
Blame the father who is not involved in their child's life. Even if a child is born out of wedlock, the man is the one who chooses to abandon his offspring, and even when people are married it is not a guarantee that the man won't cheat or abuse the mother. Even if marriage or relationship dissolves, the man needs to take responsibility for his offspring.
If parents were more involved, it wouldn't be an issue
Imagine thinking schools were actually providing adequate education BEFORE COVID. 😂
Hard to believe it can get any worse. When I was attending less than nice public schools years ago, all most students basically needed to do to pass was show up on time and leave their books open in class. There needs to finally be real learning for every student.
Naw. Just abolish public schools.
That has been going on for decades.
There needs to be real learning FOR every student? What about BY every student? As a teacher I see the comfort zone is way
More important than learning, which requires getting out of it. If that’s what you meant to say, I agree.
Teachers are saints trying to work through this.
The pandemic made a lot of holes in our education system way bigger, I don't think I should've been made to repeat my senior year, but I can see how younger kids missed out. The bottomline is its a broken system and if anything more people are aware of it.
I’m grateful my granddaughter was only in t k when shut down happened. I was able to retire and keep her home with me while my daughter continued with her college courses. All we did was read, make art, go on walks in the neighborhood and play board games and card games. By the time kindergarten started she was already a year ahead in reading. I don’t think this gap in classroom education is going to slow kids down as much as is being stated here.
He's right! We need to see the children of today as our future. It's so easy to be dismissive when you aren't being directly affected by what's going on at present, but eventually you will be! We all will be.
I can see this in my step- grandsons. The one who graduated during the pandemic is lost, afraid to work, and the younger still has good grades but has lost his social skills.😢
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So the parents,who were home collecting those checks, did not teach their children a darn thing? What? Can't blame the school or the computer. Parents should have taught their kids some math, spelling, geography, abc's , and the like. What was you doing?
Why is it that nobody knows that this is been going on for all of these Years? Why isn’t the federal government doing something about this?
Teacher here. These problems are cultural and extend beyond the education system. Nobody spent the pandemic learning a language, writing songs or stories, getting fit, or getting a foot in a new industry while the door was wide open. We have an indoor-cat, couch potato culture. We view learning as an upload of factoids to our brainboards, when we should view it as widely applicable lessons in resilience and developing productive habits; we learn the "budo" of one way so that it can apply to all others in our lives. Students don't want to become teachers anymore because they don't admire the position, and school boards want us to put our teachings in a compact online form so that we become obsolete in future classrooms.
The problem is called a phone lol. Tell those students to read comments on tik tok they can.
We need a HarlemChildrenZone in every part of our country.!
Why can't anyone call COVID what it is: Collective trauma. We hit the breaks for 2, or 3 years, and everyone was hurt by that, yet the media only focuses on kids that are behind in school when the public education system in this country was awful before the pandemic and morphed into something that is so awful that, teachers like me had to leave for their own sanity.
Kids are very resilient if they're provided the opportunity and the support, but the poor teachers working in a broken system who keep getting told COVID caused childhood trauma, are operating in various states of desperation often with little money, PTSD from the profession, and mental illnesses of their own, so it's a shame that no one wants to talk about that.
I don’t even want to tell you about what’s going on in college for students who survived the pandemic.😖
College is so much more difficult now than it used to be. You have to memorize all 700 genders before you can graduate.
During the pandemic, I tutored students in person because some of the remote options were unreliable due to connectivity issues and deficient in concept presentation, often without explicit instruction.
Some of our teachers are killing themselves to help our kids catch up and to get the emotional support they need. We are witnessing behavior never seen in ur school. We have absolutely no support from the district.
This youth social-alienation has been a genuine under-appreciated challenge of educators.
Lack of computers? We all had school laptops.
Teacher here who left in 2019 and has since returned to the classroom. It is wild to hear how many students brag about how they didn’t learn or do anything during the lockdown.
I never learned anything from 14 years of schooling. Schools don't teach you diddly squat. I had to largely educate myself.
I’m not sure why this is a surprise to anyone.
Plenty of people argued that closing down schools was a terrible idea.
It was obvious to us parents at the very beginning - within the first month or less I would say for me, and most of the parents I have spoken with.
I am not sure how child development, experts and teachers went along with all of this for so long. Most teachers were refusing to go back. So now that the exact thing is happening, that we all said would happen, everyone is so surprised.
I was talking to this teacher that said the pre-K kids wear noise canceling ear phones because they weren't used to crowds
They were headed in that direction as of about 8 or 10 yrs now, anyway. Inability to talk to others without a screen....Pandemic exacerbated it
Sounds good to me! I have always hated crowds.
It's very true. I was a 4.0 student, until this year, in which I declined into a phase of burn out and depression.. My parents do not allow me to have a phone, but it is without a doubt that we depend on drugs, phones, and other isolating forms of pleasure to get by with our daunting tasks. Our corporations and educational institutions have too much power over us these days. We have to seek progress, and revolt together as a people.
Are you in college? You're old enough to get your own phone if so. You don't need your parents' permission.
@@KristySki I am in highschool lol😢
Young people in college are struggling. I seriously wonder how they'll be able to cope with life as adults and work.
Look at the parents, see what is going on at home. That is where the accountability needs to be addressed. How are parents absent from all of this? Teachers teach, they are not parents. Behaviors are developed at home.
That is true.
I’m glad I took mine online. I’m close to finishing up my bachelors.
Closing schools completely was the dumbest decision.
I’m very grateful to live in a small suburban community. Our children spent very little time out of school. The teachers tried their best to educate the students and also provide emotional support, while keeping them safe. I work in a large urban hospital. Some of my co-workers had their children learning from home for more than a year. They report that their children are struggling educationally and are also struggling to renew friendships or make new friends.
Closing down the country will be remembered as one of the worst decisions ever made.
I told everyone back then that keeping them out of school for so long was a bad idea. Everyone said "Kids are resilient! They'll be fine!"
They're not fine. And now this is what happened.
What happened during the flu pandemic a century ago with this??? I can't find any info. Both of my parents were young children in the 1920s. Both are dead so I can't ask them. Eh... I can say that my grandparents NEVER talked about it. They talked about the Depression but they never talked about the flu pandemic.
Recess at my daughter’s school has been cut to 15-20mins and she only gets PE every 3rd week on a rotation. I don’t think it’s healthy or good for her mental health. Kids need breaks too! More so even.
Interesting... Extending the school days when many school districts are going to four day school weeks.
Yeah. I was in 9th grade when the pandemic shut down schools, and now I am in 12th grade, and seeing the 9th graders struggle with basic multiplication just makes me shocked and worried about the future.
That's a problem from elementary.
I feel sad for the kids . Ever since Covid kids have lost the sense of education and not respecting their teachers and being in isolation way too long . I think it’s time for parents and kid to send their kids to a teen center that can help kids heal their situations. I went to the teen center all the time after school during junior high and I felt so happy there . They did Universal Studios, Disney, movies and the fun activities I got to do before I started high school.
Parents get your kids signed up for teen centers .
Teens aren't the only age group affected.
Quit blaming COVID. We were in an education crisis before the invention of COVID.
It doesn't have to be as devastating as stated. The pandemic was traumatic. We have collective trauma. Many of us lost loved ones or our own health. Some of us felt very isolated. Forget trying to keep up exactly with the pre-pandemic pace. Let's focus on showing some understanding and empathy toward each other, including extending such consideration to this generation of kids. I have hoped that the pandemic would teach us to focus a little more on humanity than on productivity. I'm with the psychologist on this.
As a single mother with no childcare and tons of health issues. In and out of the hospital. I'm sitting in the waiting room now. Was just here yesterday. I wish there was free tutoring and just more programs available for low income struggling parents. My son can read at 9 but not as well as I know he should. Basic math is decent but the problems he needs to read and create number solutions are a struggle. I have him read 20 minutes a day most times but I'm definitely doing the best I can. When mommy gets better I'll be working overtime with him.
The most expensive babysitting system in the world.
If you can read this, be grateful for your elementary school teachers.
Let’s talk the influence of devices, social media and gaming.
..the worse is the breakdown of the American family. We are in deep trouble.
"we need to see our kids as resources for this country" ---- as a teacher i never related to a quote harder than this
Instead of human beings capable of their own decisions? You're advocating for indoctrination.
Schools should've never closed in the first place. The amount of young people being affected by the loss of education was way more than the amount of people who died from COVID, and most of those people were older people anyway. Prioritizing the young is more important as these people have the power to shape the future.
Extending the school day? We can't find enough teachers for the current school day/school year set up. Plus, it's better for the brain to see the material for shorter periods, but frequent periods instead of for an extended period.
I feel like many of these problems were already there and just set on fire by covid. You add that qualified teachers are leaving the profession at a large rate and now classes are being led by subs or instructors who would not have been considered qualified 5-10 years ago.
Thank you for this report
American high school here. I do agree. I have noticed that other students seem to not care about learning anymore, they rather just care about their grades and still not learn anything. I think the school system needs a rehab but I don’t know. I am worried about my generation
Don't bee worrie 🤗 Superman will bee here soon
It's been like that for years.
The pandemic just intensified and accelerated and already existing crisis for social interaction. In my opinion, social media & technology are the driving issues. This, coming from a Gen Z young adult.
This is what my mentor told me (current new teacher). She's been teaching since the early 2000s, and she said that as cellphones and social media have become more integrated into the students' lives, the less engagement and more apathy she's seen in the classroom.
As a high school teacher, I would like to see what paying the teachers to stay later is doing to their burnout and wellbeing. I did remote learning teaching. The loss of social skills for kids is astounding and will take awhile to get back
This story was well done and it’s so sad. I’m grateful my daughter graduated high school six years before the Pandemic hit.
All these problems pre-date COVID by years. The pandemic lifted the lid on issues that had already been brewing for many years.
As someone who is in high school and has been developing throughout Covid, I can say one of the biggest problems are the teachers. Post Covid with inflation and everything else, teachers are not being paid enough to care to teach, I just came back from high school today and out of my 7 classes, 2 of which were APs, 1 teacher taught today. The other 6 classes were just a quick worksheet handed out to us with stuff on it we have never seen before and just sitting on our phones while the teacher is on their phone or asleep.
Do the work. Zip your mouth. 🤟
Damn, did you notice a change in recent years or has it always been like that?
@@sarcasticmouse it always seemed to mainly change since Covid as inflation went up and teachers already underpaid salaries didn’t but it’s kinda been like that always
Those teachers should be fired, and at least in my state, they’re paid very well. My sister, on the other hand, gets paid just €1,500/month which is like $1,800, and yet she’s an excellent teacher, so NO excuses. Start demanding you get what we ALL work very hard to pay for!
@@LluviadeOrugas They can't be. The teachers union makes firing bad teachers impossible
You can see it with children's shoe wearing habits. Every kid I see is barefoot, in the socks or wearing sandals. They look like they rolled out of bed. They don't get out of the house much and they became homebodies that get cause up in their thoughts. Every negative experience is worst because they got weaker. It made OCD, anxiety and ADHD symptoms worst. Young people need to be out, around other people, socializing, interacting, getting dirty and being in a routine. Certain milestones have to happen at certain ages. The lock downs broke all of that and it will take years for them to recover.
being barefoot is good though honestly
@@royisdabest naw it’s a sign of laziness. Plus going barefoot a lot tears your feet up.
@@royisdabest YES
Most kids are natural introverts now. Get over yourself.
how many people were trying to yell from the mountain tops that this was going to happen, and here we are?
"...not just poor kids, but [kids we actually care about]." 😢
Did some students not have a tough situation to learn at home, yes, but also do many of my students (I teach 7th) tell me "I miss covid times when I didn't have to to work and I could play on tik tok all day," also yes. They did not have to turn on their cameras in class so they logged on to the meetings and then didn't do a diddly darn thing for 2 years (because you could not give them deadlines either). It is not shocking to me their math and English scores are abysmal. It does make me feel less alone it's not just my school though
The pandemic messed up a lot of my habits. I'm 17 almost 18 years old, and most of the abilities i had before it happen are long gone, for example, retention of information, skills of concentration for long periods of time (studying for more than 30 its hard) i have a dependence on my phone, ofc the phones existed before but online it was such a necessity, now i can be 5mi without it. I had to watch online classes of physics and chem so basically i didn't learn anything and did not had a good base of it. This later affected me bc going back to school the professors when we did not know something said "you saw this topic last year" or we did not or we don't remember. I must say i have always been an A" Student. But the pandemic made everything so hard. Social skills were affected too. I'm worried bc I'm about to start collage. Great video! I just wanted to share my experience
Teachers STOPPED teaching. In my kids school district, the teachers just have the kids go on to google classroom and do the assignments there instead of teaching the lesson. This is the biggest change I’ve seen post Covid and it SUCKS!