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NY Times says school COVID closures may be ‘most damaging disruption’ to kids’ education in U.S. history
Fox News ^ | Gabriel Hayes

Posted on 11/18/2023 4:27:32 PM PST by NoLibZone

The Times lamented the learning losses stemming from the closures after pushing for the closures during the pandemic's height.

The New York Times editorial board penned a new editorial on Saturday stating that the school closures enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic "may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education."

The editorial provided a reflection on the "significant" learning losses stemming from keeping around 50 million kids out of the classroom because of the virus, and urged elected officials and the education community to move quickly to heal some of the damage.

The paper came to these points after certain mainstream media outlets supported these same closures. Some media figures have continued arguing they were good decisions

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The good news for Democrats is that a dumber population will increase Democrat voter registration.
1 posted on 11/18/2023 4:27:33 PM PST by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

I disagree. Many kids were out of the hands of leftist govt indoctrinators.

The godless liberal socialist takeover of public schools is the worst thing that happened to kids in education in this country.


2 posted on 11/18/2023 4:30:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NoLibZone; ransomnote; grey_whiskers; bitt

No s#@t, Shirley!

🤬😡🤬😡🤬


3 posted on 11/18/2023 4:30:58 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Secret Agent Man

True!

The non socializing has to take second, to that.


4 posted on 11/18/2023 4:32:02 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: NoLibZone

Some people believe this was all intentional.


5 posted on 11/18/2023 4:34:55 PM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: NoLibZone

In my area a lot of the parents did not want their children to get the shot. Some are home schooling and a lot of them are now enrolled in private schools.


6 posted on 11/18/2023 4:36:20 PM PST by Parley Baer (GO )
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To: NoLibZone
The New York Times editorial board penned a new editorial on Saturday stating that the school closures enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic "may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education.

Looking forward to the NY Slimes apology and investigation into the advocacy journalism they undertook and of course the support for Randi Weingarden and her collusion with the DOE.


7 posted on 11/18/2023 4:37:05 PM PST by capydick (“the Bible are the answers Withinfor all the problems men face.the covers of )
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To: NoLibZone

Leftists destroy. From top to bottom. The “elite”’rulers on high make a decision, and it filters down to the rank and file, who so easily obey like good sheep.


8 posted on 11/18/2023 4:38:16 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: Brandonmark

Indeed. Those making the calls were certainly aware of the impacts on society; they just didn’t care.


9 posted on 11/18/2023 4:42:17 PM PST by drwoof
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To: NoLibZone

What education are they missing? Boys might forget how to dress like girls?


10 posted on 11/18/2023 4:42:19 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: NoLibZone

What a 180 degree switch.


11 posted on 11/18/2023 4:51:54 PM PST by Vahan1987
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To: NoLibZone

I wouldn’t focus on the “education” aspects.

But I think this debacle has been hugely disrupting to kids of all ages — preschoolers trying to learn language from people wearing masks, up to college students trying to finalize their steps into the wider world of adulthood (hard to do during lockdown).

And families trying to raise kids, trying to care for and say goodbye to elderly in retirement homes.

I think there has been a huge social dislocation and I blame the US government and the Medical community for every bit of it.


12 posted on 11/18/2023 4:56:11 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hear hear.


13 posted on 11/18/2023 4:58:59 PM PST by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: Jane Long

No s#@t, Shirley!


I now sub at a school I retired from. The damage done by the closure is easy to see. Kids are maybe farther behind than the two years that school was closed or limited. For fourth and fifth graders it is particularly evident, but even with the older kids, you can see it. I don’t know that they’ll ever catch up. Reading scores are abysmal.

In my opinion, it doesn’t help that the school now relies more on Chromebooks than textbooks for lessons. Textbooks are horribly expensive, get dated quickly, and wear out. I get that. But kids spend their time in school looking at a screen rather than actually reading.


14 posted on 11/18/2023 4:59:34 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: NoLibZone

Except for the actual Department of Education.


15 posted on 11/18/2023 4:59:51 PM PST by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: hanamizu

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

Thank you for this personal, on the scene, report.

God bless you for subbing! I did that, years ago (when my own kids were younger)....not sure if I could, today.

Just sickening what they’ve done....and....they KNEW this would happen.

Evil.


16 posted on 11/18/2023 5:07:37 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: NoLibZone

What astonishing hypocrisy.


17 posted on 11/18/2023 5:27:43 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Secret Agent Man

Agreed. Closing the schools actually opened a window into the gulags public schools have become. Coupled with the greedy, selfish behavior of unions and total indifference to needs of working parents, support for public schools has plummeted almost as much as test scores and school enrollment. Randy Weingarten recently asked why the popularity of home schooling has risen so fast. The answer is “you” Randy.

Defund public schools NOW!
We have to burn the village to save it.


18 posted on 11/18/2023 5:35:03 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: NoLibZone

Just say “No” to the Covid/Flu Mandaters at all levels!:

Cutting through the Mist of the Managerial State!
JOHN CARTER NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Use disobedience to claw back whatever personal agency and responsibility, you can in your own life, train yourself not to take these people seriously, encourage others to do the same!

If enough people do this, eventually it will become so prohibitively expensive to manage the population that the strangling vines of this parasitic organism we call the managerial state can be hacked back to something manageable.

https://brownstone.org/articles/cutting-through-the-mist-of-the-managerial-state/


19 posted on 11/18/2023 5:36:11 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Brandonmark

Of course it was intentional! They could have made different choices at every turn yet they consistently failed to do so. The teacher unions should be charged with criminal conspiracy.


20 posted on 11/18/2023 5:38:21 PM PST by bigbob
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