Negative Affects of Virtual Learning: Multiple Factors Hurting the Future Generation By Betti Halsell, Contributing Writer Published December 17, 2020 (Stock) This global pandemic has brought on a new reality and everyone has been affected by the devastating spread of COVID-19. This includes the future generation; the scholars of tomorrow are falling through the cracks during the “virtual learning era.” For some of these students, the school was a place of escape. virtual classes do not hold the same energy as they did when one sat in front of a desk with mobile phones put away. With many unforeseeable weights stacking up amid an unprecedented time, it leaves the question of the long-term effects of this abrupt transition in education and development.