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TerriM's avatar

"Walz then adds: "These kids learned resiliency, these kids learned compassion for one another, these kids learned problem solving -- they had to figure out how to get online and do this.!"

This makes me really really angry. "It's ok. What I did to them just made them stronger." No, they didn't learn resiliency, they didn't learn compassion. They were lonely emotional messes. They learned to fear that they might kill grandma, got tremendous guilt if they got Covid, they gained weight which still hasn't dropped, stopped exercising, dropped a year or two in maturity so that teachers have seen behavior problems in middle school they'd never seen before, and they are now addicted to their computers, and classrooms have moved online so that we parents have ZERO ability to take their computers away because homework is done and turned in online. It's so bad, that parents are begging teachers to take away the Chromebooks in classrooms, and teachers are trying to figure out how to get the computers back out of the classroom to gain attention control back.

He's not just wrong, he's abusive, and he can't even come close to apologizing.

By his reasoning, we should just start punching kids because it teaches resiliency and compassion.

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Jody Bessner's avatar

You’re being generous , Dr.

He deserves an F .

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