I think the problem is the pandemic ruined the scam of teachers handing out grades based on fluff and nonsense. By forcing everyone to take the same tests and preventing the teachers from easily fudging the numbers (since everything gets recorded online) the real aptitude of all the special snowflakes was revealed.
The pandemic did not make students dumber, it revealed how dumb they already were.
Not seeing the lips and having the sound be muffled is a lot of sound and info to be lost over a day. 2 weeks woulda been fine. 2 years of struggling to understand the teacher is an irreparable setback. The smart kids were fine and tuned out anyway, but the struggling ones fell behind.
Remote education is fine. The way they were doing it was insane, and the reason why online school gets messed up so much.
I think the problem is the pandemic ruined the scam of teachers handing out grades based on fluff and nonsense. By forcing everyone to take the same tests and preventing the teachers from easily fudging the numbers (since everything gets recorded online) the real aptitude of all the special snowflakes was revealed.
The pandemic did not make students dumber, it revealed how dumb they already were.
Based take. Absolutely plausible.
I think it's a combo.
Not seeing the lips and having the sound be muffled is a lot of sound and info to be lost over a day. 2 weeks woulda been fine. 2 years of struggling to understand the teacher is an irreparable setback. The smart kids were fine and tuned out anyway, but the struggling ones fell behind.