Dave, love the newsletter but when you write about how kids have fallen behind post-pandemic, all I can say is duh! Which makes it so tone def coming from you who was so pro "shut down saves lives."
While the research has now definitely showed that the treatment was worse than the disease, we didn't need that statistic proof to know that shutting down the world was going to be many factors worse for humanity than keeping it up.
You used your platform to sway public opinion one way and are now highlighting the repercussions of that in that strategy without having once pointed a critical finger at yourself.
It would be good to read the article. There's no difference in numbers between schools that shut down for a brief period vs a long one. Saving lives takes precedence over math scores in my opinion.
I read the article. Short or long, shutting down had adverse affects on children.
While the idea of save lives taking precedence over math scores makes a nice sound bite, it completely obfuscates the entire point that, in this country, we continue to prioritize the eldest cohorts at the expense and detriment of our younger generation. This obviously goes extends out in many direction - housing and income inequality, political office, opportunity in general - but nothing is more indicative of our mishandling of youth today than our disproportionate response to COVID.
Absenteeism might be related to not wanting to be used for target practice.
Hard to feel safe and focus on learning in an unsafe environment.... just saying.
It's not just COVID...
Dave, love the newsletter but when you write about how kids have fallen behind post-pandemic, all I can say is duh! Which makes it so tone def coming from you who was so pro "shut down saves lives."
While the research has now definitely showed that the treatment was worse than the disease, we didn't need that statistic proof to know that shutting down the world was going to be many factors worse for humanity than keeping it up.
You used your platform to sway public opinion one way and are now highlighting the repercussions of that in that strategy without having once pointed a critical finger at yourself.
It would be good to read the article. There's no difference in numbers between schools that shut down for a brief period vs a long one. Saving lives takes precedence over math scores in my opinion.
I read the article. Short or long, shutting down had adverse affects on children.
While the idea of save lives taking precedence over math scores makes a nice sound bite, it completely obfuscates the entire point that, in this country, we continue to prioritize the eldest cohorts at the expense and detriment of our younger generation. This obviously goes extends out in many direction - housing and income inequality, political office, opportunity in general - but nothing is more indicative of our mishandling of youth today than our disproportionate response to COVID.