Comment by wedog6
21 days ago
It says this but the numbers in the article actually show flatlining after 2013 with a huge drop off after 2020.
2022 8th grader cohort missed much of 6th and 7th grade. 2024 cohort missed 4th and 5th grade. These results are extremely in line with that effect, despite what people want to say about social media, teacher pay, etc.
Most studies are showing children with neurological damage from continued exposure to covid outbreaks in schools multiple times a year.
Lockdowns did not last more than a few months for the vast majority of school districts in the US.
Three-quarters of urban school districts were operating fully remote until late 2020. That may skew the results.
New York City had hybrid in-person and remote as an option, so only about 4 months were remote for most students. Seems like a perfect A/B test case to test the theory that a remote learning was actually associated with cognitive decline 5 years later. Meanwhile every year since 2020 there have been studies published from nearly every country on the neurological and cognitive damage from mild covid cases. Seems to be more of a cognitive dissonance issue, that people don't want to confront the elephant in the room. 100 years ago when TB and Polio were taken more seriously than today, the common solution was fresh air. Schools today are even more sealed off to the point where a simple lack of oxygen starts to noticeably reduce cognitive ability after a few minutes.