From 3 different sources, I have heard we have problems this year in schools. The teachers and students lack motivation. The teachers are quitting at record rates. The students are not doing well at all and, of course the parents are reaching the point they are about to start pulling their hair out.

I have heard PhDs address it all with a puzzlement. (You like that word. I learned it from the King and I.) At any rate, everyone seems to be confused as to what might have caused it, let alone how to fix it.

I really don’t have the foggiest Idea why we should need experts to figure it out. It is simple. Due to the China virus, they took the kids out of school. They effectively gave the teachers a perpetual holiday and the kids are all stuck at home, causing immeasurable stress for the parents, and I guess grandparents too. You cannot disrupt things for a school year like that and expect things to remain normal.

Sorry folks. The only thing that will help is to just start getting things back into some kind of routine as quickly as possible. Everyone will just have to put up with the stress until then. Well that is not totally true. We just might have to let the current teachers quit and get some new ones. The new ones can’t do much worse than the previous ones.