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Why? We're social beings and it is extremely important for children to be with other children, especially in a setting where not all of them are best friends with each other or family. How else would they learn social skills? You seem to assume that it would be good if school was dispensable, but why would you think that?

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Why would you assume the ideal environment for learning social skills is in a school with children interacting primarily with other poorly developed children?

Life experience and growth shouldn't be confined to a standard classroom.

Right, but it also shouldn’t be confined to a bedroom, which is effectively what happened.

Oh, strong agreement. I was addressing the comment since it seemed framed independent from the stay-at-home context

> Why would you assume the ideal environment for learning social skills is in a school with children interacting primarily with other poorly developed children?

No one is saying that. The topic under discussion is that being locked inside with your family probably is very very very far from ideal.

It's like there's no children outside of school and no way to introduce them to each other... Tell me, what is 'learning' social skills at school?

That everyone was locked at home during the pandemic and couldn't go anywhere was horrible and damaging for children and adults alike.

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