Students may "fall behind" just as all of society has "fallen behind" because plagues have impacts ffs.

You know what really sets students back? A severe and debilitating illness. You know what else sets them back? The death of a parent or beloved teacher. There are many ways that sending children back to school could cause them more harm than being "set back" academically.

Btw my sister started school a yr younger than me bc she was born after the cut off date and the school allowed parents to decide back then if such students started a bit early or not. I did not start early. I was "behind" her, but we got into the same colleges upon graduating.

This notion that students "falling behind" academically is some sort of catastrophe, when the real catastrophe is that thousands of people are dying every day who did not have to, illustrates that our society was already very ill.

And when students start losing parents bc they were sent back to school and brought the illness home (or even just think that's what happened), what do you think that will do to them psychologically? Do you think every child will fully process that it is not their fault?

If, as a child, one of my parents had contracted a deadly illness, and I thought they got it from me, I don't think I would have ever recovered from that emotionally. I blamed myself when my parents argued ffs.

When children predictably don't follow the rules at school and their parents get sick, some will be convinced that it was their carelessness or mischief that caused their parent's death -- rather than their parent having been murdered by this government, which is the truth of it.