Posted on 07/28/2021 11:49:28 AM PDT by knighthawk
COVID-19 school shutdowns have left K-12 students five months behind in math and four months behind in reading by the end of academic year, damning research has revealed.
A new report from McKinsey & Company has shone a light on the toll pandemic-related school closures have taken on children across America as many spent the best part of a year with no in-person teaching.
Disadvantaged students faced the hardest setbacks, with children in the lowest household income groups finishing the year seven months behind in math and six months in reading.
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“Disadvantaged students faced the hardest setbacks...” Of course they did! Everything the globalists do is about hurting the lower classes (a year ago I would have said “Everything the Democrats do”, but now..).
With the stupid libtard teachers we have they’re lucky not to be five YEARS behind.
has to be more time than that - especially for math. There is no continuity. so add another year to relearn the old stuff. Seeing it in my own family,
They would be 5 years behind had it not been for the shutdowns.
IOW public schools are worthless.
I know from personal experience.
Most everything I learn,except for the minimum basics,I learned on my own after high school.
I still struggle with some subjects.
That’s all? I’d say added to how stupid they already are being dumbed down as they have, it’s now about four years behind.
My son finished his sophomore year, isn’t going back. Has a job, is getting his GED. He was in parochial school through 8th grade and was a year ahead in math in high school. When he’s ready for more education, he’ll be able to figure it out.
…and probably three years behind children of a comparable age in 1970.
No problem; just say all that learning is racist and move on.
The most critical lesson they might have learned is that they can't trust their government, including the public employees in the school administration, nor the pharmaceutical and social media korporations who are actively attacking their rights.
They've also had the great opportunity to learn that these same governments and korporations will bastardize science to further their agenda.
That kind of learning is priceless.
But what is important is the teachers get paid even when they utterly fail to teach the basics.
lowest income groups are the groups most likely to be home collecting cash. Did the parent care or give attention to their children’s schoolwork? Contrast that with home-schooled who are NOT behind.
Not my grandkids. They are homeschooled and doing great. I am a retired engineer and their science teacher. My three grandsons took a computer programming class for kids this summer at a local trade school.
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