The bigger effect is that kids getting sent home due to the pandemic weren't being enrolled in online learning. They went on vacation with occasional check-ins online. That's about how I would describe my kids' experience and they were solidly grounded, with supervision at home at a school well prepared technologically.
Most kids had no interest in working without supervision forcing them to work. Now that they're back in school, they are continuing to not work and it's a disaster, with teachers and staff quitting or retiring en masse. Again, this is in a school district that people had been trying to get into for years.
It's really not the coursework delivery style, it's about forcing kids to do what they don't want to do. This force just isn't a component of online learning -- it has little to do with content delivery, imo.
The upside is that those kids that actually want to learn are freed up more than ever before and can actually thrive.
This tracks with what my daughter experienced. At her age (HS Junior), she had classes that she wasn't particularly interested in. In-person classes have that social/peer pressure to actually study and turn in work. For dull/uninspiring classes, this helps to push students to pay attention, read the texts, turn in assignments, and participate. With the online classes, she had an easier time shrinking into the background and not participating as much as in-person.
Most kids had no interest in working without supervision forcing them to work. Now that they're back in school, they are continuing to not work and it's a disaster, with teachers and staff quitting or retiring en masse. Again, this is in a school district that people had been trying to get into for years.
It's really not the coursework delivery style, it's about forcing kids to do what they don't want to do. This force just isn't a component of online learning -- it has little to do with content delivery, imo.
The upside is that those kids that actually want to learn are freed up more than ever before and can actually thrive.