Covid learning loss has been a global disaster

Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by thrown_22 on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:13AM (#32056414)

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to grow up. There are certain skills, like learning to speak, that can only be done at a certain age. Once that age is past it is not possible to ever pick them up and be fluent at them.

Covid for under 12s was a disaster. We might as well have fed those children lead for the mental retardation we've caused them for the rest of their lives. Over a virus that killed precisely none of them.

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by barry-cotter on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:20AM (#32056520)

> This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to grow up. There are certain skills, like learning to speak, that can only be done at a certain age. Once that age is past it is not possible to ever pick them up and be fluent at them.

We can at least be thankful none of those skills are learned at school.

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by anshorei on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:40AM (#32056778)

Except being forced to wear masks does interfere, and I'm not just talking about the kids. The kids need to be able to see the faces of the adults around them.

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