Posted on 04/01/2021 9:17:11 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report has confirmed that virtual school hurts the mental well-being and stability of children in comparison to school that takes place in person.
The CDC surveyed over 1,200 parents with children aged between 5 and 12 years old, and they noted that virtual learners and their parents scored higher on 11 of the 17 stress indicators, which measures factors such as the mental health of children, levels of physical activity and the emotional distress of the parents.
The research was conducted during Oct. 8 and Nov. 13, 2020, and 1,290 parents participated in the CDC survey. 45.7 percent of parents said that their children were engaging in online-only classes, and only 31 percent had started attending in-person classes at that time. 92.9 percent of participants confirmed they had children enrolled in public schools.
The lockdowns are having profoundly negative mental and physical effects on children. 62.9 percent of children engaged in virtual learning reported having decreased physical activity while only 30.3 percent of children going to in-person school have decreased physical activity. Children attending in-person classes score higher in other key metrics as well....
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Great business opportunity. Just wait for the sociologists to coin the phrase “GenCov”. This will be worse then “GenX” and or “ Millennial.” Five years from now these kids will claim to have numerous psychological, social and learning issues. Standards will be lowered, preferential hiring laws enacted and huge grants award to help them. If you plan now, you can make a fortune off of this.
This has occurred to me as well. I fear you are correct.
I am almost half tempted to work up a business plan and talk it up with people—just to make a point about the damage we are doing.
My fear is that they will think it is a great idea rather than get my point.
Most kids need social interaction more than provided by zoom calls.
Most parents are not prepared or capable to home school
That is the lesson.
Which is sad.
This study is about children ages 5 to 12.
At that age, they need to have more play time, more time exploring their own interests, and having fun.
For years, plenty of children have had virtual school at home. But, they also must have time away from the computer.
BS
It has nothing to do with virtual schooling, which is at least as good as in person education.
It all about parents keeping their kids locked in the house for months at a time.
We have 2 DIL’s, who are thinking about GenCovid and their parents, and the job opportunities with them, not for the poor and poorly skilled.
“Targeting those still with money in the banks, trading up in home values and not depending on government doles.”
Good people again, wanting to improve their life styles, and their families’s life styles as their “customers”!
People willing to pay the providers instead of the “Whining, ‘Help me!’”. Or the world is ending, “All is lost!”, losers!
Good people/”customers”, looking for new ways of improving and maintaining the life styles of their family and willing to pay for that help/service!
“ CDC Confirms the Obvious: Virtual Schooling Hurts the Mental Stability and Well-Being of Children. “
Teacher’s Unions were a big part of the plan since the 1950’s, as was detailed in the Communist Agenda that was read into the Congressional record at the time.
The title of the article is the reason and the purpose for the teachers unions
to have forced this upon us.
Now that their mission is complete, one can see that they feel no need at
all, to go back to work.
#SilentWar
#PleaseWakeUp
~Easy
I bought my kids educational PC games when they were little. My daughter at 2 years old was studying phoenics. When she entered kindergarden she was reading at the 3rd grade 3rd trimester level. Both my kids went to college on full tuition scholarships.
The difference is the games were enjoyable even as they taught lessons. They weren't trying to follow some unpolished presentation on a zoom call. But fun educational games for high school levels were hard to find.
I've long thought that if you took best of class learning programs in each subject, that even higher level classes like high school and college could be become much more efficient.
In normal times, classes wouldn't need teachers so much as just classroom control agents. And in pandemic times, the software could report failure to complete lesson quizzes, so that parents could intervene.
Computers have advantages.
There are some disadvantages...
But again, computer aided instruction in a live class, can get the best of both worlds. Computer aided instruction at home in a pandemic, is a lot more entertaining than a zoom call.
That's my opinion, and ought to be yours.
And apologies to my daughter who is a school teacher who disagrees with me on this.
I agree that the problem is not computer-aided instruction per se.
Homeschooling, aided by computer-aided instruction, learning pods whereby kids go to different homes, different parents overseeing the teaching of subjects they are good, etc., can work.
I suspect the real problem, in addition to Zoom classes being taught by people who aren’t that great at teaching in general, is that virtual school for so long is sending the message to kids that the world is spiraling out of control and will never be much of a world worth living in. That, and most of their parents are not really equipped to handle this new virtual school environment. They may be able to handle some sort of community-based home school cooperative thing if they were handed a binder, so to speak, on how to manage this and vouchers to buy the services of good people to help them with this.
It’s not the schooling since they are now pretty much evil marxist indoctrination centers. It’s the lack of socializing. We are social animals and keeping a kid locked in his house, in constant fear of imminent death, dooming the planet, and being an irredeemable racist wipes out their mental well being and harms their immune system. Ignore the schools and organize home schooling co-ops with other parents. Organize your own classrooms and recreation.
Yes! Your post is spot-on. One of my children used PC software as young as 1. (I still have those CDs.) They made learning fun, and he advanced quickly. Then I felt guilty and kept my next child away from the computer, until I noticed that he too benefitted from it. I always wish I’d let my other children start playing when they were very little, too. That type of learning system works because the kids learn at their own pace.
Even at junior high level, there were software learning games. Then one company produced a software program for high school math and physics. I planned to use it for my kids, but not enough parents were buying it for home use, so the company sold out to the school system, and then it was unavailable for home use.
If a teacher is overseeing everything a student does at home, of course the child will be stressed out, but when kids are having fun playing educational games, they do much better.
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