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James Woodcock
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Joined: 21 September 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 8682
Posted: 25 September 2026 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

the pandemic lockdowns were weird.
I was never furloughed, but worked from home, doing a lot
of Zoom calls as I was on a few international projects.
It was funny talking to adults who were furloughed, who
seemed to think no one was working. they just couldn't
get that I was at work.

My son got barely any work from school, so we bought a 20
week on line 11+ course and I split each week over 5 days
- that became his school work. He aced the 11+ when he
took it.

It was a mega hot spring/summer, and we would go out each
afternoon after I finished work for a bike ride. good
times.

But there were other parents that seemed to really
struggle. And yes, it became clear that those kids did
not get some real basics sorted by their parents. They
also seemed to struggle socially after a year of not
interacting with other kids.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Joined: 04 July 2022
Location: Canada
Posts: 448
Posted: 25 September 2026 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

As a teacher, the biggest dip in knowledge and comprehension definitely occurred with the kids who were in K-3 during the lockdown years. The issue is, the kids I'm teaching now weren't yet in school when the lockdowns happened, but I'm seeing the same low level of comprehension and critical thinking. Something changed. (I blame screens mostly.) 

I will say, my wife and I both volunteered to teach online for a full year during the pandemic, which means we both got to work from home 3 or 4 days a week (we had to teach from empty classrooms in our schools the other days, when we had recess duty responsibilities). 

My wife taught a virtual kindergarten class, and having observed her, how she did it, and what she did, I sincerely think she should have been hired to instruct other teachers on how to teach kindergarten virtually, because she was fantastic.

I taught a 7th grade class virtually and I sincerely believe they got as good an education that year as they would have if they were in the regular classroom. The evidence is purely anecdotal, but one of my virtual students won an award as one of the Top 8 students in our entire school board (90,000 students!) when she graduated high school. But I think for most kids, the virtual learning years were absolute and total wastes. 
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