When Victoria Vial’s Miami middle school shut down last spring and her classes went online, it felt like the beginning of an adventure. “I was in my pajamas, sitting in my comfy chair,” the 13-year-old recalled. “I was texting my friends during class.”
Then she received her academic progress report. An A and B student before the pandemic, she was failing three classes. The academic slide left her mother, Carola Mengolini, in tears. She insisted her daughter create to-do lists and moved the girl’s workspace into the guest bedroom to pull up her grades.
Over the summer, Victoria’s tennis and theater camps were canceled. Her family postponed a planned trip to Argentina to visit her extended family. She formed a pandemic pod with five close friends, but the girls bickered. Subcliques formed, and Victoria and her best friend found themselves excluded. The pod fell apart.
The return of in-person schooling last fall brought some relief, but with some of her classmates still at home, teachers had to shift their attention between in-person kids and those online, leaving students feeling disorganized and behind.
LochnerWalter So now just try and imagine how the kids who are subject to abuse and neglect must be feeling.
Yes, definitely, on this side of the border too, up here in Canada. Am judging essays written by high school kids for a local writing competition and man, they are anxious, insecure, fearful, contemplating black thoughts...
You have to do the work. Back to school back to friends back to sports and activities.
Because the worst of the damage done wasn't natural.
Totally, sooo rarely, it’s not like there were children before, you know, during the missile crisis, or WWII, or WWI, or the civil unrest during the 60’s. Or during the Civil War, or when several infants died of cholera, smallpox or diabetes. Never in the life...
The Government's Terrible Toll on Kids. There. Fixed it for you .
When this is over we should build mega-playground structures, free swimming pools, outdoor roller skating rinks and really spoil our nation’s children. Poor babies🙁
We must worry about children's PTSD from covid19 pandemic disasterous problematic trauma
Also had a president who wanted us to inject bleach and convinced millions that COVID isn’t real so...there’s that.
The damage to the hundreds of millions of kids whose educations, social lives, and mental health were uprooted due to lockdown policy outweigh the health damage caused by the virus itself. And comparing NY and CA to FL and TX, it appears lockdowns don’t even hamper the spread.
Getting almost jailed at house, losing freedom of playing games outside, watching terrible news about fear and deaths, pain of losing parents because of the virus, disconnecting from any real social platform.. what else could be exactly to destroy a childhood?
Depends. Middle class to rich kids stayed home connected to school and friends with everything they need while tiktoking or playing cod. Poor kids in cramped apartment with unemployed parents worrying about food, internet and death probably are not going to do well.
So give them a vaccine? Oh brother
It’s not the pandemic — it’s how governments have handled it. And the media has cheered it on the entire way. Despicable.
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