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Feb 2, 2021Liked by Elisa Camahort Page

I often think of previous generations who also got the short end of the stick: young men and women whose lives were upended by wars (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc.) or the different depressions (1930's, 2008). So many young peoples' lives affected and changed because of worldwide situations that were beyond their control and that changed the trajectory of their lives. This pandemic (and the political upheavals) will have the same affects on this generation in that their lives did not go as planned. What/how they make of the need to change is up to them and the resources we provide as a nation and as a world.

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Well, it's that latter part I'm concerned about because historically we haven't been great about that (e.g. the way the GI Bill was equitably given to Black vets, and so on). I think this is clearly way more impactful than anything since at least WWII if not the Depression because of the scale and scope of the impact.

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was *not* equitably given I should have said!

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Feb 2, 2021Liked by Elisa Camahort Page

I appreciate this, as someone who's got two young people in the house who are at or near teen years. It's a bit of a rollercoaster. For the most part, they're OK, but occasionally there's a rough patch because of the pandemic. It's been helpful for me to keep in mind "it's not forever!" And that they're like you in that they know themselves, and know what they need to feel better in a healthy way. But whew, some days.

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Feb 3, 2021Liked by Elisa Camahort Page

It's not forever is a refrain no matter the circumstances with parenting I found. There's a reason "She's a 13 yo girl" became such a refrain in our home. (We have a blended family of six with mostly girls)

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I can only imagine. I often thought of myself as put-upon, and I'm not saying I wasn't, but I was also probably a handful. I was pitching my sister on trying the approach of saying "Here's what you need to do so this won't be a thing we have to talk about." That would have worked wonders on me :)

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Feb 2, 2021Liked by Elisa Camahort Page

I was an unmotivated, horrible student, without even drama to keep me at the bare minimum for grades. It went to the wire two days before graduation to learn if I was indeed graduating. A perfect verbal SAT score saved my chance at college. Even then, I ended up doing two years at the community college because having my parents mortgage their home to send me to college was ridiculous. I probably would have done well with remote learning. My youngest was a bare minimum "I don't like how As look" student. She started graduate school in September after graduating undergrad with honors. My kid that chased As through school and went to a notable college isn't rocking the success yet.

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Traditional schooling just isn't for everyone. And I don't think it's a simple as saying it doesn't work for people with this learning style or that learning difference. Sometimes it's personality. Sometimes it's life circumstances that don't support the traditional approach. I don't know what the solution is, unfortuantely.

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Feb 3, 2021Liked by Elisa Camahort Page

I think that it is a matter of finding the style that suits the student. I think I would have been an awesome homeschooled/unschooled student pursuing the things that interested me. I did far better in college because I WAS choosing the types of topics that I found fascinating. Some of our brood did great in public school. Some did not. Two of them were homeschooled at various points and flourished. One grandson is doing wonderfully with homeschooling and making huge leaps where he was floundering in a series of public schools.

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