I know a lady, single mom and grandma, who has 7 school age kids under her roof. I'm sure some of those kids are traumatized in some way or other, I don't know why they live with their grandma. Just getting 7 laptops plugged with space to work would be a challenge. I'm sure their internet is not up to this.

Portland Public Schools has done a great job getting a working laptop into every kids hand and I know there is a program to make sure they have internet but I don't know how successful it's been (probably ok because I haven't herd about it). We are in the middle of a wind storm with scattered wildfires that's screwing up power and internet, they had to turn off video during class yesterday to get audio to work.

Your kid and my kid could miss a year of school and it would have little effect on their lives. Our kids also have bookshelves with 100 pluses books in them (I assume you do but I'd be surprised to be wrong) parents who have conversations with them and exposure to new ideas and stimulating content. Our kids are also baseline smart (I assume again).

A kid who isn't smart and has little to no intellectual stimulation, who isn't read too and no one has a conversation having anything to do with anything but their misbehavior would be devastated by a year off. That's my impression from the things I've read about kids at the bottom, maybe katakowsj could say more.