The New York Times acknowledges that the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns are causing widespread and long-term damage to schoolchildren and their learning.
Four years after politicians shut down schools, New York Times published new analysis on Monday Despite failing to stop the spread of COVID-19, school closures are “widely recognized by many public health and education experts” to have had a significant negative impact on children. he admitted.
The Times drew several conclusions about why school closures are bad policy, based on the latest data on learning loss due to the pandemic.
First, the Times found that students who were kept out of school for longer — those who were relegated to remote or hybrid “learning” — fell further behind academically than those who returned to the classroom earlier. found. Overcoming these academic losses is nearly impossible.
From the Times:
The latest test scores for spring 2023 show that students as a whole have not caught up with the losses caused by the pandemic, and wide gaps remain among those who were the worst off in the first place. Students in districts that spent at least 90 percent of the 2020-21 school year remote or hybrid for the longest time still have almost no room to make up compared to students in districts where students were allowed to return for most of the year. There was twice as much left.
Second, the so-called “Newspaper of Record” found that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds experienced steeper learning losses than those from more affluent backgrounds.
“This is notable because poorer school districts are also more likely to remain remote for longer periods of time,” the Times reported, adding that the nation’s poorest school districts are among the Democratic Party that has taken a heavy-handed approach to the pandemic. He explained that it is located in the city of control.
Third, the Times revealed that short-term school closures will not spare students learning loss and other serious problems.
“Many schools are seeing an increase in student anxiety and outbursts, and chronic school absenteeism is soaring across demographic groups,” the Times reported. “Experts say these are signs that short-term closures and even the broader effects of the pandemic have had a lasting impact on educational culture.”
The problem is that politicians inflicted this harm on students despite a clear lack of evidence that school closures slowed the spread of COVID-19.
Unfortunately, the Times only danced around correct retrospective conclusions about school lockdowns.
“Some schools, many in Republican-led states and localities, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and Democratic-led states, have not fully reopened,” the paper said. It will take another year,” he said.
What this actually means, given the data presented in the article, is that Republican-controlled states have largely handled the pandemic correctly by limiting closures, while Democratic-controlled states have been criticized by “experts,” This means that it did not go well due to the influence of the teachers’ union and corporate media. .
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