I just had this discussion with someone who made the same idiotic claim that one kind of at home learning is somehow completely different from the other.
Of course the main reason remote learning is apparently bad for the mental health of children is becsuse, wait for it, it takes place at home.
I was told that even though both home schooling and remote learning take place at home, there a yuuge diiference. Whereas remote education is structured, home schooling is flexible, allowing students to advance st their own pace.
Yet loss of classroom structure is cited as one of the major problems with remote learning that contribute to mental health issues.
Other problems associated with remote learning include lack of social interaction, as well as loss of direct access to social services and school meals.
It was pointed out that parents of home schooled children can find alternative social activities for their children. As if parents of remotely educated children can't do this?
It's politics.
Bill Bennett does not like remote learning at all. Here is a partial quote, "Think about homeschooling. Think about a charter school. Think about sending your child elsewhere."
The right wing does not like public schools, so they push alternatives; school choice, charter schools, home schooling, as solutions; even though those might only benefit a minority of children.
Some just want to defund public schools. The true believers actually believe market competition will improve public schools.
They don't like teachers unions (or unions in general), so they oppose remote education.
The right wing will talk about local control of education, but will only practice it if the locals agree with them.
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