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Letters and feedback: Feb. 28, 2021 Florida Today I read with interest the recent featured column titled Students need national summer school after COVID losses. The author, Jim Manly, argues that a summer school program would help to remediate skills that were lost. Examples he used are learning how to read by third grade or solve algebraic equations by eighth. What Manly fails to mention is that these skills are arbitrary benchmarks used by the state to design curriculum and assessment. Must a student learn to read by third grade or solve algebra equations by eighth in order to be a successful adult? What about all of the other skills that students learned this year? Mr. Manly didn t mention that although students may not have made large advances in reading or math, they most certainly have learned much about their community, human behavior, political strife, resiliency, and of course plenty of details about infectious disease spread and prevention.

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