Covid showed me that on the average home schooling (or at least remote learning) leaves kids extremely under developed.

The stunted social and academic skills were pretty apparent in retrospect once the schools reopened.

BJones12 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Remote learning. You didn't see homeschooling, which is a very different thing, you saw remote learning.

The homeschooling crowd has developed methods over the years to compensate. The COVID remote learning cohort did not, and suffered for it.

	▲	lazyasciiart 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Remote learning has also built many methods for success, and absolutely nobody even consulted them before implementing their ad hoc systems for Covid. There are entire online public schools and their staff were just ignored.
	▲	FireBeyond 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Have they? And what ensures they utilize those methods, exactly? Many states you, as a kid are 100% educationally off the grid the moments say "We're homeschooling".

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Redster 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What happened to students who were in schools that closed was terrible. But it wasn't anything close to homeschooling.

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wtallis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

COVID forced remote learning to be adopted very broadly, without the usual self-selection effect of families that choose to homeschool when they have a choice. So the observations from COVID don't really support any stronger claim than saying that homeschooling can be done badly.