Posted on 04/05/2022 6:36:43 PM PDT by DeweyCA
My high school junior’s life completely changed overnight in March 2020. He’d been in distance track and had just broken a 5 minute mile, and then never ran a step again. He’d been drumming in our church band weekly for hours, and then never drummed again and never went to church again. He’d been going to Mexico to build houses every summer and never did that again. He’d been drumming in a rock camp every summer and never saw those teen musicians again. He flunked out of “remote learning;” I pulled him from high school and homeschooled him. No senior year, or prom, or graduation, or final recognition banquet for running years of cross country, or nerf wars.
He’s doing well now, a freshman taking in person computer science classes at Cal state. Finally was allowed to unmask two weeks ago. His life changed overnight in March 2020. Thanks for posting this article.
Yes—you and I posted at the same time. Sometimes I think everyone on free republic is 80 years old and clueless. Those of us with K-12 and college kids in 2020-2022 will never forget it. They sacrificed for the old. The virus was harmless for them. Even the vaccine hurt kids more than it helped them. I went to eleven “reopen school/sports rallies” last year. And tried to recall our school board. Nothing worked. The teachers unions had the upper hand. I’ve never felt so anguished—these are and were my KIDS!
“How did children survive without social media if it’s so necessary? How did children survive before the last 50 years?”
Not talking about social media. They’re talking about the lack of social interaction due to schools being shut down.
He always had that power withing himself.
He didn't need no STININ' "permission"!
How to Destroy a Civilized Society in One Easy Lesson.
Not true. He was “written up” in his dorm lounge for not wearing a mask while playing the piano. He’d be asked to leave lecture halls if refusing to mask. He just wants in person, unmasked, computer science classes. Not sure why these simple things we once took for granted seem so difficult these days. I’m glad those” mask mandate” days are finally over. Hopefully.
Black universities have done this for decades so the minority of students performing college level pulled all the half literate ones along. Just like progressive Ed called to be done back in the 1930’¹*
And a new customers for big pharma
The origins of belonging: social motivation in infants and young children
And a note to parents who went along with Deep State's CoupFlu policies: Don't get fooled again.
Not over in Upstate NY...
“I didn’t have any energy to do my hair or make TikToks or anything.”
I’d hate to see a perfectly good English muffin ruined with margarine.
“A lot of us oldtimers never had a social life.”
In the early 70s, when I was 12 years old, my father would pick me up after school on Fridays and take me to the restaurant he managed. I would work until 9:00. On Saturday and Sunday I would work from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. My official social security income actually starts when I was 13 years old. I did this all the way through high school. It would probably be considered child abuse now, but I would not trade the real life education I got from doing this for anything.
Today’s social media teens & the teens I was raised with are 2 entirely different situations.
Guys who volunteered for WW II & lied about their ages got as much as 5 years gone-—PFFT.
How old was Audie Murphy???
How many American lives changed forever on Dec 7, 1941???
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And in the meantime, don’t forget the ever-popular “Huddle Round the Stove Shivering.”
I won’t deny your deeper point, but I don’t think it’s on-par to compare the necessities imposed by a bona fide multi-theater, multi-national war with the imminently debatable bullhsyte levied upon us all by a wheedling cabal of scaremongering, hand-wringing governmental panty waists. Every one of those boys who made it back home had something real, valuable, and tangible to show for their troubles.
Our kids ain’t got JACK #@$T to show for this mess they were handed.
AND, as for those fine young men who lied about their age to get an earlier shot at their share of kraut: they did so VOLUNTARILY, so — again — not quite apples-to-apples.
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