“Remote learning” was a complete joke. My fourth grader is a Hermoine Granger type, very self directed, and even she would just stare out the window during Zoom school. She lost a whole year in reading.

Luckily, we send her to private school. It reopened more quickly than public schools in many areas nearby (Fairfax VA and Montgomery MD). And once we were back in person, she got 1 on 1 reading instruction every morning until she caught back up. My wife sometimes resisted the expense of private school (we both went to public) but the pandemic totally confirmed why it was worth the money.