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efil4stnias said
Nah i dont buy it. Well adjusted kids do well adjusted things.

Its been a minute since my freshman year but i can assure you there was NOTHING that year provided me with outside of football tailgates, my pledge class and the stark reality that i was gonna have to transfer out if i wanted to graduate because there was entirely too much partying happening.

Those kids didnt lose a year unless they wanted to lose a year.

At least they will have the rest of their lives to sort out their feelings/issues.

many dont have that opportunity unfortunately. You are approaching this with a very narrow view. Widen the lens just a bit.

So when they are grandparents, they can replace " when i was your age we walked 10 miles, barefoot, in snow" with " when i was your age we woke at 845 logged on, and did school work from our bed". ;)

I understand, but there is already a crap ton of evidence that our covid school policy has done some major damage and the spike in mental health problems among kids is also pretty well established. That is my wide lens view - derailing a year-plus of school at every level and masking young kids (going on 2+ years in some places) is going to have long term impacts across the larger population. Kids are resilient but they aren't immune to these impacts (which may not even present themselves until you start cognitive testing, etc)

My narrow-lens view (my own kids) is taking that knowledge and trying to make up for it as best I can but I'm fortunately in a position where I have some resources to throw at the problem.