I suggest that all kids in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades who do not intend to go to college to just drop out and get their GED (whenever they begin to administer the tests again). Their time would be better spent learning a trade, business, operations, accounting, filing - anything useful to society at large.
If 25% of the kids did this, the schools in California will lose 25% of their revenues since revenues are based on enrollment numbers. Starve the beast and give them a taste of their own medicine. Make them comply, make them take a haircut and learn how to live on 25% less revenues.
The toll on the kids is what infuriates more than anything about the handling of this.
Odds are, kids who were like me at that age would have already learned what he was trying to teach, and likely be well ahead of his lessons.
In a way, I would have liked this whole illegal lockdown LIE to have happened when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I would have absolutely THRIVED!
Those who WANT to learn will. Those who don’t care will not.
Those who get bored coast, and never fulfil their potential.
There are going to be a lot of lost people who have had a year and a half or more of their lives ripped from them and they were so baby soft to begin with that they will just sit in their living rooms forever unless someone physically pulls them out. The kids, soany of them denied a year and a half of their formative years, are going to be a portion of them, and they’ll be the radicalized snowflakes begging for universal basic income because they “just can’t even” when they attempt to function in society.
On the flip side though, there are hundreds of thousands of young adults who have been paying attention, they are angry that so many of the milestones they were promised were ripped from them. They may not know what happened, how it happened, who to blame, or which political party they prefer, but they are going to be looking. If you want to change the world, pay attention to these young people and don’t scare them off. Be patient and guide them to see what they may not have the maturity to see. Those kids are going to make a difference some day, the bedroom trolls who exist mostly on social media and video game chats? They won’t.
First time that I ever recall trade unions arguing that their members’ jobs were not needed.
This has been an awful year for K-12 and college. I pulled my teens out—one to homeschooling and one to private but neither is full time/normal. This is a good article. My heart breaks for all students. Especially those in CA (still closed). This is millions of students.
“Back in the real world where facts matter, an analysis of 70 million 10-year-olds worldwide shows that “11.5 million of them could be unable to read as a direct result of the impact on education of the Covid pandemic.”
Bullsh!t.
If a 10yr old can’t read it’s because they are just plain dumb. And no amount of classroom instruction will change that.
Chinese schools are open. Schools in Korea are also open. They went virtual half of last year but kids were still being taught.
I talked with a volleyball player at the Dollar General Store yesterday. I hadn’t seen her for a year. She just didn’t look herself. She told me she had two scholarships. I asked her about the masks during the matches. They are required and the coach makes them wear the mask while they do their running, practice, etc. This is in my opinion is child abuse. Other children I have seen have gained weight, lost their sparkle . . .it is heartbreaking. These evil leaders in government, etc. have managed to break the kids’ spirit. Wasn’t that the plan. Have a relative whose father-in-law died . . . was doing well for his age until the shots . . .it was downhill after that. Only Jesus can set things right! If there was ever a time to witness, it is NOW before it is too late.
Homeschool.
The children were sacrificed so the country could be paralyzed while the left went to work transforming it into a marxist hellhole.
Kids have been back at school for months here and not wearing masks. The rural MO knuckle dragging, Bible thumping rednecks figured out that the world is being duped. Everyone’s kept their Trump signs out too but I did see one yard where they cut Pence out of the signs and saw a Trump flag at half mast a couple of days ago. I imagine it has been like that for months and will be like that for another 3 1/2 years.