COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Interesting read

I remember reading articles that said the impact on the pandemic kids in a lot of was will be felt for years if not decades
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In a normal year, up to half of Christine Jarboe’s first-graders start school knowing how to tie their shoelaces.
But thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, school hasn’t been normal for more than two years.

So when Jarboe welcomed a fresh crop of Fairfax County Public Schools first-graders to her classroom this fall for their first full year of in-person learning, she made a disturbing discovery.
“You’d say, ‘Okay, can you show me how to tie your shoes?’ and most of them would just kind of look at me, like, really confused,” Jarboe said. “They really weren’t sure even where to start.”


It was one of many “missing skills” that Jarboe discovered among her students over the course of the semester. She expected them to show up behind where they should be in academic categories such as reading.

But what she hadn’t counted on was that her children would prove unable to do things such as cutting along a dotted line with scissors. Or squeeze a glue bottle to release an appropriately sized dot. Or simply twist a plastic cap off and on.


In interviews with The Washington Post, teachers around the country shared that they were confronting similar problems, dealing with pre-kindergartners, kindergartners and elementary-school students — as well as some middle-schoolers — who arrived unprepared for the school environment.

Online learning left children, on average, four months behind in mathematics and reading before this school year, according to a McKinsey and Company study released in early April…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/12/pandemic-kids-shoe-tying-social-emotional/