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Do you think the students of 2020 will be less capable, education-wise, than those of prior and subsequent years due to school shutdowns?

Or, perhaps, do you agree with my belief that it'll merely convert the group of capable students from a normal distribution into a more concentrated one? I.e., the middle will be split and the stupider will get stupider and the smarter smart.

My reasoning being that, the lack of having busy work at school would result in the smarter kids actually making proper use of their time and learning more than school ever could. In contrast, the more apathetic kids, no longer force fed knowledge to barely squeeze by, will instead waste their time and learn nothing.

Your thoughts? I also question if YA! StackOverflow, etc. had an uptick in questions as a result of the latter group.

Thought this would be a fun question to post.

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  • 1 year ago

    not much. a few months makes little difference

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    All the schools where I'm from are continuing but are doing home schooling, so my nephew Parker is on the computer getting lessons from his teachers through video and my brother and sister-in-law are having to spend a lot of the day with him helping him with his assignments, both in-class and homework, as well as administering quizzes and tests.  

    The lessons themselves aren't as long, but he gets a lot more assignments, so parents are basically tutoring their kids in order to get them through their assignments, and generally, my brother says he or Jess sit their with him while the lessons going on because, one, they've got nothing better to do; two, they want to make sure he pays attention; and, three, they want to make sure they understand the lesson so they can answer his questions, like with math, not so much, but like with social studies, it's been a long time since they took social studies.

    Basically, I don't think there'll be any difference at all.  

  • 1 year ago

    It depends on how long it goes on for.  A couple of months out of many years of education shouldn't make much of a difference.  But who knows really?  We play the hand we're dealt.

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