A new Brown University study on school absenteeism during the 1st pandemic year examined 2018-2021 attendance, survey + interview data of 52k kids from Detroit Public Schools and found nearly 70% of students were chronically absent 2020-2021, 40% because of computer problems.
Importantly, attendance in school is the single largest determinant factor of academic success and thus a large contributing factor of real world success. Unfortunately, attendance in DPSCD district plummeted from 82% (2018-2019) to 68% from 2020 through 2021.
All and all, lockdowns, remote learning, and school closures have have historically caused irreparable damage to children as evidenced by, for example, 30% reductions in verbal+non-verbal intelligence quotients so stringent COVID mitigation in kids should be avoided going forward.
Source Below
https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai22-609.pdf
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdf