“These are kids who spent most of their formative years – kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, when you’re supposed to be learning social skills – not learning them. They don’t have those social skills,” Wendy Gonzalez, an elementary school teacher in Richmond, CA. said that as a result of remote learning during the pandemic, many of her students didn’t “know how to talk to each other.”
A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found:
“The abrupt shift to remote learning challenged student and teacher engagement, dramatically decreased instructional time, and hindered student understanding.”
According to the American Enterprise Institute’s analysis:
“The urgent need to recover from pandemic learning loss will be severely hampered by current rates of chronic absenteeism, making it the most pressing post-pandemic problem in public schools.”
USA Today, 3/19/25
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