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Again, my original comment was in response to a comparison to home schooling, which inferred that they also don't have social interaction at school and that "they aren't developmentally compromised". Just pointing out that a comparison of home schooling and kids being separated from their friends for a few months is not valid.
And yet, not a single person has been demanding that things like camps or sporting events be opened up to specifically support the two million home-schooled youth of America. Because it'd be a smokescreen, just like the idea that young people will be irreparably damaged by being out of in-person classrooms for a few months in which they'd have the same "social" opportunities that home-schooled youngsters currently have.
It's akin to a poor non-masker excuse that breathing in their own carbon dioxide will cause them to pass out. But if pressed, they can't seem to produce evidence that surgeons and nurses are dropping like flies during surgery.
I also completely disagree that today's children have fewer socialization opportunities than ever before, particularly when isolated from in-person contact. Cell phones. Online gaming. Video chat. You want isolation? Grow up on a farm in the winter during the 1960's or 70's.
The underlying concern with distance learning centers around costs and decisions that would be required for parents to replicate a home-school environment. That really needs to be brought out from behind the proverbial curtain, but it's not because "OMG, BUT the KIDS!!" gets more play.
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One thing the government hasn't been able to censor or outlaw during COVID-19, thankfully, is our ability to thin-slice an argument so fine that you can vehemently disagree with people who you agree with. Once they start banning anti-socialization, as a society, we're done.
Ohio has reported about 1,750 student cases and nearly 1,000 for staff, in the state's K-12 schools, since the state started posting the data in early September. Last Thursday they reported nearly 600 new cases, from the week prior.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
The difference is that normally-in-classroom students are out of a familiar normative experience due to a health emergency, not by choice, while home schooled students are aware that they are doing non-institutional learning for a certain reason ( maybe one that is explained to them or maybe one that is dictated to them).
I am curious why you think that all social isolation is comparable, whatever the different rationales are for the isolation.
Last edited by Betterread; 10-19-2020 at 09:22 PM.
No children at the 4H club?! Am I so out of touch?
...no, it's the children who are wrong.
I can buy that children who have experienced home schooling over time would be more acclimated to a socially-distant environment. But I do not buy that all other children are so change-averse or unadaptable as to render them irreversibly damaged should they not be able to attend in-person classes for a few months when home-schooled youth are more than capable of handling a socially-distant environment for the bulk of their formative years.
I also don't buy that the parents of non-home-schooled youth can't sell their children on there being a good reason for not attending classes in person. A pandemic is a pretty good reason. Maybe not as good as a zombie apocalypse or nuclear fallout, but still a pretty good reason.
I don't think that. That's a strawman. It's just that in this case, I believe the primary issue is parents' unwillingness to adapt that's the central issue driving the desire to get kids back in classrooms.I am curious why you think that all social isolation is comparable, whatever the different rationales are for the isolation.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
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