[Jane Long]

No s#@t, Shirley!

🤬😡🤬😡🤬

[hanamizu]

No s#@t, Shirley!

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I now sub at a school I retired from. The damage done by the closure is easy to see. Kids are maybe farther behind than the two years that school was closed or limited. For fourth and fifth graders it is particularly evident, but even with the older kids, you can see it. I don’t know that they’ll ever catch up. Reading scores are abysmal.

In my opinion, it doesn’t help that the school now relies more on Chromebooks than textbooks for lessons. Textbooks are horribly expensive, get dated quickly, and wear out. I get that. But kids spend their time in school looking at a screen rather than actually reading.