There are many topics that bubble under the surface of the Coronavirus pandemic, but none quite as close to every family with school-age children as the continued closure of many public school systems. In some parts of the country, schools have opened, for at least partial in-person learning during the week. In other areas, however, virtual learning continues with kids glued to a screen for six hours a day, separated from their friends and outside human interaction. Many of these kids, from families lacking the means to support adequate home education, are falling far behind, and the long-term damage is still being borne out in front of us.<\/p>\n
This issue, while rife with politics, shouldn’t be political in nature. Children learn best when sitting in a classroom with a teacher, that point seems universally indisputable. Why the pushback from all levels of the education system, even with teachers receiving Covid-19 vaccine priority<\/a>, against returning children to the classroom is so high remains a frustrating chasm for parents.<\/p>\n
In Las Vegas, things took a turn for the worse<\/a> in recent months, as circumstances screamed for schools to re-open, if not merely for the mental health of the student body, let alone the quality of learning:<\/p>\n
In the City of Baltimore, failing grades are now becoming the norm rather than the exception. Students previously on the bubble are falling quickly back, while students who previously did well are now in danger of hurting their academic records<\/a> due to the shortcomings of remote learning:<\/p>\n
On the other side of the DC beltway, in wealthy Fairfax County, the school district has seen 10% of the student body simply drop out or leave the district, and another 10% who went from passing to failing as a result of the distance learning model<\/a>:<\/p>\n
President Trump, during the campaign, hammered a demand for schools to open. Now, President Biden is picking up a similar mantle, pledging a federal plan<\/a> to open most public schools within 100 days:<\/p>\n
We should all be working to get there as fast a possible before more damage is inflicted, and before the suicide count goes up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1062],"tags":[2128,2016,309,2129,2130,2127],"class_list":["post-39338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-classroom","tag-covid-19","tag-education","tag-parents","tag-teachers","tag-virtual-learning","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"\n
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