Thanks Fauci and government.
I am no Fauci fan, but the truth needs to be spoken. The failure in K-12 education is with the parents.
I home schooled child # 4, and I can tell you that elementary school is unequivocally a waste of time. My daughter and I read the classics together, she learned math and grammar and we observed science in real life. All this was done every day before lunch time.
The “ Covid backslide” is a parenting failure. Many parents worked remote. Could they really not give their children math workbooks or spend 30 minutes/day reading with them?
Let’s not blame the government for what is really the failure of parents to parent their children.