Should schools reopen?

[gergroy]

mZuzek said:

NightlyPoe said:

JRPGfan said:

Yep... however you cant just ignore reality.

I'm not ignoring reality.  I'm dealing with the situation as it exists.  If kids were becoming sick or spreading the disease at a high rate, that would be one thing.  But the spread among young children is very low.  That's been the single lucky break we've gotten from this disease.

As it stands, the dangers of not educating a whole generation of children outweigh the benefits of keeping them home.  Those consequences are permanent as well and will become greater and greater as the time out of school extends outward.

I don't get this point. It's not like kids aren't ever going to school. If the entire education system is delayed by one year, children won't suddenly become dumb forever because they stayed home for a year and are going to finish school aged 18 instead of 17. Nothing changes, like, at all.

On that note, I have had students that have come from third world countries and have had no formal education their entire lives.  They are usually up to grade level within a couple of years.  It honestly isn’t super difficult for students to catch up as long as they are willing to work for it.  I will admit it does require some buy in from the student though.