Teachers say kids fell behind dramatically during pandemic, lack basic skills

Teachers across the country are reporting that their young students have fallen dramatically behind on basic life skills, such as tying their shoes, following school shutdowns during the pandemic.

Teachers across the country are reporting that their young students have fallen dramatically behind on basic life skills, such as tying their shoes, following school shutdowns during the pandemic.

"There’s a huge gap that goes beyond the academics, it has to do with social and emotional components and just how to behave in school," Dan Domenech, the executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, told the Washington Post. "That is something young kids have not learned."

Teachers across the country told the outlet that students, stretching from pre-kindergartners to even some middle schoolers, have fallen behind on life skills during remote learning, and that many struggle with basic activities, including cutting along a dotted line with scissors, twisting a plastic cap off, squeezing a glue bottle an appropriate amount of adhesive comes out, and engaging in more playground spats.

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