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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re all a bunch of Tappers in this thread. [b]You sure rode it high on Biden’s market.[/b] Complacent and self important. Sure, everyone’s an armchair quarterback now. Snap the fck out of it!

I’ll fight like hell, care for my community, and continue to focus on doing everything possible for the blue wave midterms. Do something! [/quote]
Just because you're rich and insulated doesn't mean everyone else is. Democrats are bleeding because the leadership is overwhelmingly people like you who are insulated from real life.

Under Biden, I and many moms I know lost our jobs, went part time, took paycuts, passed up or got denied promotions, and suffered other career consequences that had major financial impacts because of school closures and Covid policy that went on way too long. Inflation hurt a lot of families. The stock market rebound is such a stupid measure for well-being in a country in which most people have no money in the stock market.[/quote]

Well, if you’re white, DEI didn’t save you, so expect things to get worse.

DEI benefitted white women the most, which is quite sad frankly.

Also, Biden prioritized inflation over jobs so more white woken like you didn’t lose their jobs. Odd that you’re in a big group of job losses. That’s unusual. Though I’m not sure how you’re not getting a promotion, after you got fired, is Biden’s fault? [/quote]

Yes, and the school closures were during Trump’s first administration, not Biden’s.[/quote]

The EXCESSIVE school closures were the fault of blue-state governors and teachers unions. Neither Trump nor Biden are responsible for those. [/quote]

If schools had been open during that time, parents like you would have been sending sick kids to school and making everyone else sick. This would have resulted in whole classes having to stay home constantly--rolling de facto closures. Some staff and kids would have died. This is not fiction. [/quote]

And it’s also not fiction that an entire generation was educationally destroyed because of the closures. The data is relentless. [/quote]

You are quite hyperbolic with your "aN EnTIRe GeNERaTion WaS DESTRoYEDDDD!!!!!!11!!" commentary.

Yes, it is true that there is data that shows some kids fell a year behind.   Some, but not remotely all.  And the data also shows that the ones who fell behind were either younger students who didn't yet have a strong foundation to begin with, or who already had developmental issues, or who had no support at home.  Sadly that's a much bigger issue than school closures - that there are parents who don't bother to parent, who don't read to their kids, who don't help their kids with their homework, who think the schools should do it all, or who just don't give enough of a damn about their kids to begin with.  That's in the "relentless data" if you bother to read it.

But that said, kids have been back in school for a while now and many of those who did fall behind have caught up again.  Recovery funds were provided to help get kids caught again.  However it's also telling that many of the kids still struggling tend to be red states.   That is what your "relentless" data also shows.    Rather than railing about "SLeePYJoEBiDeN RuINeD My KiD" maybe you should instead focus more on doing your own part to help kids because guess what, a lot of these parents still can't be bothered to do any parenting with Trump as President either.   And for the record, I myself am parent of a kid who went through the pandemic - and my kid came out of it just fine.

And by the way, there's another key piece of "relentless data" - that's the contact tracing data that shows that schools were one of the places with the HIGHEST rates of COVID transmission.  Meanwhile, whether you like it or not, it's also a fact that the decisions on how long to stay closed was a local school district decision, not something commanded down from an ivory tower by Anthony Fauci.  Ultimately, however, the consensus by those who actually studied it and collected the data after the fact is NOT "we should never have closed the schools" but rather that hybrid or targeted closures combined with strong safety protocols would have balanced the tradeoffs between public health and educating kids.[/quote]

Oh. You are irrational. I guess that’s who the Democrats attract these days. [/quote]
DP...care to refute any of the PP's points, or are you content with lobbing personal insults?[/quote]

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