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In reply to the discussion: What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later [View all]Bad Thoughts
(2,524 posts)35. No compassion, no imagination
Studies on how Covid spread through school, being the primary vector for the virus after Summer 2020, make it clear that the students had to stay home
This study tells me that teachers and administrator were unwilling to do the work to resolve the problems of the students' education caused by lockdown. They had kids move through the system as of nothing had happened.
The politicians didn't fail. The school did after the fact. They should spend more time with students, allow them to hold back a little without penalty, in order to solidify the skills they are expected to learn.
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Question how many senior citizens and other aged infirmed people are still alive because kids weren't bringing home....
usaf-vet
Mar 24
#78
It seems pretty obvious: the longer kids aren't learning in school or at home, they further they fall behind.
sop
Mar 24
#6
"The shutdowns in America didn't work because there was never full compliance. Ever."
Hugin
Mar 24
#17
Esactly. The shutdowns were a joke. We should have really shut down, completely for a few weeks and ended the spread.
lindysalsagal
Mar 24
#20
This is the correct response to the article. Remote learning does not directly correlate with self-controlled isolation.
keopeli
Mar 24
#40
I serve on a School Board. COVID had huge impacts on academic success and learning skills
brooklynite
Mar 24
#11
What about the deaths of educators pressured into working during a lethal viral pandemic?
Timeflyer
Mar 24
#12
Extremely little coverage of teacher losses. Tells you how much we don't value our teachers.
lindysalsagal
Mar 24
#21
They should add to the charts the in-school students who got sick and the in-school students who died.
Liberal In Texas
Mar 24
#13
A lot of these "public health and education experts" are people like Ron Desantis and Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
sop
Mar 24
#18
These averages are misleading: There are always students who can just "do the math" with or without teachers
lindysalsagal
Mar 24
#22
You have thick skin to not to be a little freaked by exponential viral spread with overcapacity emergency rooms. nt
Shermann
Mar 24
#26
Public health measures in the pandemic tried to balance competing risks, each unknown.
hay rick
Mar 24
#53
New Zealand had a high rate of spread as well as Singapore even with Draconian mitigation measures.
Yavin4
Mar 24
#69
It seemed obvious and I advocated for just redoing the Covid two years and every educator said that would be wrong.
dutch777
Mar 24
#52
Hmm - "experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid" isn't backed up with much
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 24
#58
And even if children were found to be less likely to become seriously ill, their parents and grandparents
Scrivener7
Mar 24
#63
Turns out "if the transmissibility of subclinical infections is low" was a big "if"
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 27
#90
I'm glad we're learning from the mistakes made during COVID so we're much better prepared when the next
beaglelover
Mar 24
#64
The educational establishment are the ones that consider themselves as the experts
MichMan
Mar 24
#82