From: Scientific American
How COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids
As COVID surged and schools across the U.S. shuttered in March 2020, Jamie Wyss, an elementary school counselor at the Virginia Beach City Public Schools system in Virginia, vividly remembers quickly assembling paper packets on social-emotional learning to hand out to parents. She initially thought students and staff would return in a week, maybe two. But neither parents nor students would come back to the system’s campuses for the rest of the school year.
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“The decisions [to close schools] were made to protect society, and there was going to be a cost,” says Candice Odgers, a quantitative and developmental psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health at the University of California, Irvine. “There was going to be a cost to children’s learning, and that seemed to be part of the calculus that was being made.”
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