Why You Should Stop Worrying About Kids Being “So Far Behind…”
The pandemic is preparing kids for life beyond the classroom
There’s a sense of excitement in the air. Nowhere is that excitement greater than in classrooms across the country. Except maybe in the many kitchens impersonating classrooms this year.
Christmas is less than a week away. Teachers and students are packing up their books or shutting down their laptops and eagerly starting their holiday break. And parents are cheering in the background.
The next time classes convene it will be in a new year — 2021. Thank goodness.
If ever there were a reason to celebrate the new year, this is it. Vaccines are rolling out across the country. And, for the first time in ten long months, we have the thrill of hope and the anticipation of a brighter tomorrow. A tomorrow that looks more like the yesterday we all know and love.
But despite the promise of better days to come there is a bleakness hanging over education. And, according to some alarmists, our country’s entire future.
“Kids are so behind…”
You don’t have to be an educator or even a parent to have come across what has now become a popular refrain in America. “Kids are so far behind…” One study has even projected a loss of…
