Just overheard a conversation from a teacher on school closings during the pandemic

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84. Kids did change after the pandemic

The kids who were in lower grades K-2 did not get the socialization skills and got hooked on the internet. In June of this year that cohort graduated 5th grade. Those kids were the meanest kids I ever experienced as a substitute teacher I had a 5th grade class recently that still had kindergarten and they were so sweet. I purposely sub at only two schools and know a lot of the kids from Kindergarten to 5th. I have discussed this with the teachers and they brought this up to me also so we are all agreement. And you could tell the kids who’s parents were involved and those who weren’t.

That said, though the way covid was spreading sadly we did need to isolate and this is a by product of that unfortunately. Germs spread so rapidly in schools. I have seen it first hand. I picked up something at school recently and gave it to my husband.