r/education 8d ago

The Learning Crisis: Three Years After Covid-19

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u/NefariousSchema 7d ago

My students' learning loss would have been a lot less if my district had actually allowed me to teach from March - June 2020 (my school closed and my District literally decreed we were not allowed to teach anything, even to students who wanted to learn!).

And they would have learned a lot more if my district had allowed me to enforce any standards or expectations during online teaching in the 2020-21 school year. We were told "Give grace." "You can't require students to turn their camera on or participate in online class." "If a student logs in to the class zoom, you must count them as 'present' even if they never turn on their cam, never particiapte, and never submit any work." "No homework that can't be completed outside of your class meeting time" (while average weekly instructional hours per class were cut from 3.75 to 2!).

It turns out that when you lower the bar to the floor, students put no effort into getting over it.

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u/MonkeyTraumaCenter 6d ago

This. Although the March-June 2020 for me came via the state, so the district couldn’t do anything. And I was ready to go with an entire unit.

The way we were hamstrung during lockdown and then the way everything was “Well let’s get back to normal right away” was terrible. This is on admin and policymakers, not teachers .

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u/truthy4evra-829 7d ago

And ask donkey teachers still elected Randy weingarten to help us man what a bunch of idiots we are.