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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by Uehreka on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:46AM (#39864712)
> To some degree elementary school has always been a large part daycare and small part teaching.

This was definitely a fashionable thing to say last decade. But in a post-Covid world where we’ve seen meaningful deficits in skills as a result of disruptions to in-person elementary school attendance, I think we should re-evaluate this prior. It seems evident that there’s a lot more going on in school than just babysitting.

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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by fn-mote on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:47AM (#39865482)
THIS!

Why did missing school under Covid have such bad outcomes?

I don't know what happens in school (in person), but it must have been something or you wouldn't have seen such a dramatic change.

To be specific: there was a big decrease in resilience in the face of difficulties (in addition to knowledge).

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