Harvard Business School paper: "Who Closed the Schools?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Are you in Fairfax? Because I'm OP and I am and this sounds like Fairfax.

It sounds like a lot of school districts in this country. Led by bumbling idiots who are more concerned about renaming schools and other BS.

Well, I wouldn't say that renaming schools is nonsense. It's kind of offensive really that so many schools are named. after war criminals, slavers and traitors. People today are so unpatriotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Are you in Fairfax? Because I'm OP and I am and this sounds like Fairfax.

It sounds like a lot of school districts in this country. Led by bumbling idiots who are more concerned about renaming schools and other BS.

Well, I wouldn't say that renaming schools is nonsense. It's kind of offensive really that so many schools are named. after war criminals, slavers and traitors. People today are so unpatriotic.

Traitors to what? The nation that was founded on slavery and white supremacy in the first place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Are you in Fairfax? Because I'm OP and I am and this sounds like Fairfax.

It sounds like a lot of school districts in this country. Led by bumbling idiots who are more concerned about renaming schools and other BS.

Yes they were far more concerned about human life than providing free daycare!

And here we go! Drama. Children don’t vote or play the race card - so they were dead last on who this country decided to protect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Abstract:
"This paper examines the differences in characteristics between US public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of Covid-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers over students before the pandemic: Districts that chose virtual instruction exhibited a far greater willingness to prioritize teacher interests over those of students and the interests of teachers with seniority over younger and/or higher-performing teachers. We provide evidence that this prioritization is associated with significant costs in terms of student test results and graduation rates."
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/21-127rev6-14-21_e440c304-7e2e-4042-abae-d0ba2c561a31.pdf

True in your experience, or no? Somewhat different than earlier arguments that it was all red state versus blue state.

Why is Harvard Business School doing this paper?

Why are you asking such a dumb question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we had prioritized making income available for folks rather than sending adults back to work in unsafe public-facing customer service jobs, we could have kept the schools open. That's what other countries did.

Setting this up as a "teachers vs kids" problem is a way of distracting folks from asking questions about why we decided to open restaurants ahead of schools.

We did do that. Even the bad orange guy did that. That's what the $600 unemployment bump did.

[Anonymous]

The part that makes me mad is that DCPS decided that basically 0 teacher deaths were acceptable at any cost to the students. There were kids who received zero zero zero education this year, primarily kids located in wards 7 & 8.

We know that reduced educational attainment is correlated with a reduced life span. The research is pretty clear on this. The total life years lost to this cohort of children will be enormous.

We thought we were saving lives, but the total life years lost will be higher. We just didn't value them. We're abysmal at evaluating future costs.

So short-sighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Are you in Fairfax? Because I'm OP and I am and this sounds like Fairfax.

It sounds like a lot of school districts in this country. Led by bumbling idiots who are more concerned about renaming schools and other BS.

Yes they were far more concerned about human life than providing free daycare!

And here we go! Drama. Children don’t vote or play the race card - so they were dead last on who this country decided to protect.

Brava! You got right to the point.

Old farts were prioritized but not because this society is so humane but because old people sit on loads of moola and open their traps wide when something annoys them in the slightest. Next came small businesses, bars, bowling alleys, nail salons, etc, because they pay taxes and provide employment, albeit at minimum wage.
And only kids who don't have any current present value, were put dead last in this food chain.

Shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we had prioritized making income available for folks rather than sending adults back to work in unsafe public-facing customer service jobs, we could have kept the schools open. That's what other countries did.

Setting this up as a "teachers vs kids" problem is a way of distracting folks from asking questions about why we decided to open restaurants ahead of schools.

Yes. And this is exactly why Harvard Business School is doing this study.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I think there are more stages to this. If the local health department’s requirements were stricter about mitigation’s then fewer school districts would put the effort into finding a way to do it. In many or most cases public schools lack the administrative competence to deal with a new situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Heavily democrat school districts followed the teachers unions’ wishes because unions make political donations almost exclusively to democrats.

Unions put the interests of teachers first. The teachers unions do not advocate for students or student interests whatsoever.

It is relevant to remind everyone that Republicans created the public school system and backed de-segregation while democrats fought to keep schools segregated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we had prioritized making income available for folks rather than sending adults back to work in unsafe public-facing customer service jobs, we could have kept the schools open. That's what other countries did.

Setting this up as a "teachers vs kids" problem is a way of distracting folks from asking questions about why we decided to open restaurants ahead of schools.

+1
Our country as a whole didn't prioritize opening schools. If we did we would have had harder lockdowns at the beginning of outbreaks and not opened non-essential businesses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My district doesn't give a hoot about teachers but they couldn't get their s&%t together to open until this past March. Districts love to let the teacher's unions take the fall for not reopening but in reality, this past year has shown us what's behind the curtain with the higher-ups in certain school districts.

Heavily democrat school districts followed the teachers unions’ wishes because unions make political donations almost exclusively to democrats.

Unions put the interests of teachers first. The teachers unions do not advocate for students or student interests whatsoever.

It is relevant to remind everyone that Republicans created the public school system and backed de-segregation while democrats fought to keep schools segregated.

Your last statement while perhaps historically accurate is not relevant and deceptive. The democrats of those years are republicans today and you know that.