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vamptastic · 10 months ago

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honestly maybe it's bc i'm from a small town in florida where we didn't have a lot of covid cases until spring break hit, and also florida just... never really enforced a lockdown but every time i see a post talking about the Youth Of Today were all extremely damaged by lockdowns its like??? i think maybe ppl just haven't been around a lot of kids but working at summer camp before and after lockdowns the kids (5-13) seem fine & their behavior is the same. i was a freshman in high school when covid hit and certainly some people had a rough time mental health wise and i had friends i didn't see for years bc they were immunocompromised and had to switch to florida virtual bc schools here just stopped offering online school. like, it sucked, it still sucks, it was definitely a disruption. I'm just really not seeing any visible kind of developmental or behavioral issues in young children, anecdotally. Especially not to the extreme level suggested in some posts

#The same with posts about computer literacy like... Again i did a STEM program in HS #So probably my friends and I were more computer literate than average #But like. I promise you most teenagers know what a file is and how to find it #And those who don't can generally be taught basic literacy in a semester #the posts about ppl not knowing how to read is real tho. all of my english classes were DIRE and some of my college humanities classes are #too. florida just is not teaching critical thinking and it's really up to your parents to have you reading & thinking at a young age #also religious spaces help- not perfect but bible study stuff did tend to give kids some critical thinking ability #really depends on the denomination tho sometimes its the opposite

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