Assuming NH’s shutdown date was similar to CA’s, On or about March 10, 2020, parents’ kids went off to school, and the parent went about whatever they did to put food on their table and have a habitable home in which to dwell. Suddenly, on or about March 15, 2020, schools locked their doors and parents whose lives had been built around their children being in school had to reorganize their lives entirely. This would have been particularly challenging for families depending on having two incomes.
NH’s shutdown and locking of school doors did not, contrary to this goobernor’s false snark, lessen the state’s and school districts’ legal obligation to educate children enrolled in public schools. Further, the shutdown did not magically make parents of public school students unpaid deputy teachers. Parents’ legal obligations remained the same, ensure that their students were not truant.
So, aside from parents who did not ensure their kids “attended” the online sessions the public schools provided, if students’ learning suffered, it was a reflection of the quality and suitability of the online curriculum and teaching. That many/most parents did much more than plop their kids in front of a computer and make sure they didn’t bail probably mitigated the damage done by public schools’ online curriculum and teaching.
Disrespect - and sometimes hatred - for parents is teachers union and Dem Party dogma. This goobernor was preaching it, and I hope NH parents listened and understood well.