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 a lot of us who would have benefitted from the nontraditional school arrangements that were available before the plandemic but not available to when we went to school. I am talking about a lot of the e-school type options that have come about as a result of the internet age and the home school consortiums that take advantage of this.
But I suspect that a lot of kids’ problems now with the plandemic is that they sense it is a plandemic and think, “Why should I bother to learn? The world is all going to hell anyway?” And in this regard, they are a lot smarter than their Karen moms.
My second grader has been in in person 5 days a week school since August. I have no idea what we would have done if she did not go to. private parochial school. She is thriving academically it the several months at the end of first grade that we were remote were very rough on her. Her nearest siblings is 19 years older so the is essentially an only child. The social isolation was taking a terrible toll. We got her a kitten which helped but the end of the school year last year took a big toll emotionally. It’s not just the academics that matter and that the kids are losing out on