Posted on 09/03/2022 8:56:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky responded to a question on whether the handling of schools during the coronavirus pandemic was a failure by the CDC by stating that she was “not in the CDC when schools were closed.” And that “starting in January 2021, I have said, and continued to say, schools should be the first place to open and the last place to close.”
After Walensky talked about her review of the agency’s response to the pandemic, host Steve Inskeep asked, [relevant exchange begins around 3:30] “I know you want to look forward here, I would imagine, but of course, you also have to look back, and that’s what the review was. And I want to ask about one specific part of the response.” Inskeep then played a clip of Anya Kamenetz’s criticism of the agency before asking, “Dr. Walensky, do you accept that that was one of the CDC’s failures?”
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I can think of something better...
Starting in Jan 2021? Should have all reopened 2 weeks after mid March 2020 as promised. Or at least By Easter 2020 as Trump wanted.
Claim amnesia like fauxi if you want....we remember.....and God willing you will be held accountable for your actions.
She won’t answer it so I will. Yes. The CDC failed on schools and every other area in which they were involved.
Failures in pandemic education erased ‘decades of academic progress’!:
It is not surprising that due to the pandemic, math and reading scores for 9-year-olds across the country declined. What is surprising, and devastating, is that those numbers between 2020 and 2022 didn’t just drop; they plummeted.
Decades of academic progress were erased. In two years, reading scores on a key national test dropped more sharply than they have in over 30 years, and math scores fell for the first time since the test began in the early 1970s.
“I was taken aback by the scope and the magnitude of the decline,” said Peggy Carr, who heads the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the test. “The big takeaway is that there really are no increases in achievement in either of the subjects for any student group in this assessment — there were only declines or stagnant scores for the nation’s 9-year-olds.”
The scores come from a long-running version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test known as “the nation’s report card.” It is designed to compare student achievement across decades; the most recent scores were released Thursday.
“It’s clear that COVID-19 shocked American education and stunned the academic growth of this age group,” Carr told reporters on a Wednesday call. “No other factor could have had such a dramatic influence on student achievement in a relatively short period of time.”
Carr said while her team usually shies away from ascribing a reason to score increases or decreases, it’s obvious in this case that the disruptions wrought by the pandemic were a major factor in the declines.
The gap between higher- and lower-performing students was already growing before COVID hit, but federal officials say the pandemic appears to have exacerbated that divide.
“There is still a widening of the disparity between the top and the bottom performers, but in a different way,” Carr said. “Everyone is dropping. But the students at the bottom are dropping faster.”
It wasn’t my fault.
Great accountability.
Hence Walensky's feint to "reorganize" the CDC; people have walked away knowing the CDC has no credibility anymore. They're done and they know it.
I think whether they failed depends on their objectives.
When was their academic progress? I thought these things have been going down for decades?
“I think whether they failed depends on their objectives.”
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Yeah, the dumbing down of Americans through a deliberate lack of real education has been being aggressively executed for a couple of decades. The fascist teacher’s union received huge gift through all of this and their goals were absolutely achieved.
All of the anti-Americans are thrilled.
When was their academic progress? I thought these things have been going down for decades?
We started having issues schools with supposedly good education systems in the 1970’s.
When our adult children had kids, the system was failing even worse in supposedly in good districts.
That was happening from Floriduh to the west coast and still is happening.
Our grandkids left the public schools after the 8th grade, and their families helped to pay the costs at good private
schools. That turned out to be excellent investments.
One of our son’s best friend and his wife pulled their kids out of public school shortly after the 1st grade with their oldest child. They pooled resources with other friends and family members and provided home schooling for their kids.
She means...
Trump’s fault!
Once it was clear that children and young adults are about 1,000 times less likely to have serious disease or death compared to people over 65, the schools should have been reopened for most children.
She was always a big pharma shill who didn’t believe in natural immunity...because there is no money in it.
Yep. Highly successful in their failures.
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