I want to add that there are high-performing students out there. However, from my experience, the gap between the "gifted/honors" population and the "general" population has widened significantly. Either you have students that perform exceptionally well or you have students coming into class grade levels behind. There are rarely students who are in between.

There are nerds who will learn no matter what and there are students who need a push either from the parent or the teacher. With online classes, there isn't much the teacher can do to compel students to study and if parents don't do it either then they'll end up falling behind.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How could the parents do it when most of them were working at the time as well?

We're witnessing the knock-on effects of being completely unprepared for COVID in every way, and then our government scrambling to bail out the stock market and give away trillions of taxpayer dollars to corporations for free. This requires revolutionary change to fix.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yea Im not blaming the parents either, >40hour work week can be brutal.

What I'm saying is it's not exclusive to the U.S. but present across all capitalist countries post-2020.

Atleast in most Western countries there were stimulus cheques, in much of the global south, IMF and World Bank forced the countries to limit deficit which was devastating and of course, whatever increase in deficit went to the big business.

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Or the parents aren't better off education wise, i remember doing basic algebra and my mom screaming at me and calling me stupid etc. for not being able to get it but she couldn't even do it herself lmao

i turned in a homework assignment, where i felt atleast, that she done most of the work and it was a fucking F lol

my folks were not doing well mentally or financially so the idea of getting a tutor or staying after school never crossed my mind or felt possible, also fuck school i just got an F in math

I honestly believe i had it light compared to others because i was super fortunate to have two parents albeit both were dysfunctional, not just one hyper extended parent who may or may not be dysfunctional themselves.