Teachers' unions turned Covid into a disaster for the students
No parent needs to be told that remote learning during COVID was a disaster.
But a new study confirms it. Its findings cry out to heaven for accountability among those who brought this disaster upon their own school districts by ignoring science and keeping school buildings closed long after there was any justification.
Harvard researchers found that students in schools that stayed remote into 2020 lost the equivalent of half a school year of learning over the two-year window beginning in the fall 2019 academic year.
There was a significant difference between the students who went back to in-person learning after the initial jitters over COVID and the ones who did not. Students who returned to in-person schooling in fall 2020 lost only 20% of a school year.
Thus, in the mostly liberal jurisdictions that bowed to the teachers unions and kept schools closed long after there was any scientific justification, students suffered a loss that was 150% greater. It is also worth noting, with Democrats giving so much lip service to "equity" and "inclusion," that their policies were much harder on school districts with high levels of poverty.
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Covid exposed the poor judgment of the Democrats and theri teachers' union allies, and it is the kids who are paying the price. Voters should be holding them to account for a generation.
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