While people are telling students that their lives are miserable and lonely, that the pandemic has traumatized them beyond repair unlike previous generations that have had to deal with what these students are apparently incapable of being able to do, and that students are falling behind some unspecified benchmark, they demand schools need to be totally reopened because the children need to learn.
And, assuming that when schools reopen students will begin to social and with the comfort of that, learning will begin anew and all will be as it was, they may very well be surprised when they are informed that before such learning can begin, the students will have to take tests that were designed by the testing industry during all that time off when they could not make money from the present obbsession with testing when no one was in school, but now have a way to recoup those losses. They will claim to be testing against some invented benchmarks which their tests are designed to measure.
So I predict that upon reopening, instead of jumping into learning and beginning where everyone left off, kids will be spending much of the reopening days filling in the bubbles on standardized test answer sheets with Number 2 pencils.
