Pandemic Kindergarteners Are Now Middle Schoolers
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lera on WNYC, and for our last 15 minutes today, we're going to have a first day of school in New York City call in. |
| 0:16.0 | I know the first day of school elsewhere in the area already happened, But today's the first day of school in New York |
| 0:21.8 | City. This is for parents of students anywhere because it's been five years since COVID-19 |
| 0:29.2 | shuttered school buildings and moved children into remote learning. Of course, it was five years |
| 0:34.5 | ago this spring. But this week begins begins you might say the fifth or sixth |
| 0:43.2 | 2020 one two three four or five school year since remote learning began so we want to know do you think |
| 0:53.1 | the pandemic era has had a lasting effect on your child's education, |
| 0:59.3 | socialization, or personality to this day? |
| 1:03.4 | 212, 433, WNYC, and this can pertain to children of various ages, right? |
| 1:10.4 | 212, 433-9-6-92. |
| 1:14.2 | Call a text to say, if you think pandemic-era remote learning |
| 1:19.7 | has had a lasting effect on your child's education, |
| 1:23.6 | socialization, or personality to this day. |
| 1:27.0 | And if so, how? |
| 1:28.0 | 212, 433, WNYC, parents, and if any educators are listening right now, you can call to and talk |
| 1:36.7 | about how you've seen it in your students, even though if they're not your actual kids. |
| 1:42.0 | 212, 433-96-6-92 call or text. |
| 1:47.0 | So if your kids were in 3K or preschool in 2020 in March, |
| 1:57.8 | they're likely entering fourth grade today, |
| 2:00.5 | anybody in that particular cohort want to call in March, they're likely entering fourth grade today. Anybody in that particular cohort want to call in, |
| 2:03.9 | children who are in kindergarten are entering middle school now, right? Those who are in fifth grade |
| 2:09.7 | are now entering their junior year of high school, if we've done the math right. The kids who had just |
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