Remember all the speculative BS from the #COVID19 deniers that suggested pulling kids into online learning was adding to teen suicides. That was absolutely wrong. In fact, school attendance RAISES teen suicide rates.
“Returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-to-18 percent increase in teen suicides.”
I'm not advocating against in-person education, but
1) the COVID deniers were wrong AGAIN, and
2) We need to make education safer for kids.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30795/w30795.pdf
As others have stated, online learning has been amazing for my kids. As soon as I explained what we were doing to my dad he was like "Wow, you would have loved that as a kid." If only.
We've gone all in, for different reasons than others, but I've become a complete and total convert of online learning and it's the most unexpected part of this whole journey the last few years for us. My kids are thriving in ways that would not have been possible in brick and mortar.
