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Yes, it is ridiculous hyperbole, and evidence of the mass hysteria we are facing when trying to have this discussion. Don't get me started on parents worrying about their kids safety at school because of Covid...[/quote]
Right. Ridiculous hyperbole for teachers to be worried about dying from an infectious disease that has killed 110,000 Americans in the past three months but totally reasonable for people to be screaming about “life long trauma” and children being “beaten to death”. Give me a break. If you beat your child to death it is no one else’s fault. Now you’re likening school closure to murder. If you kill your children or allow yourself to become obese during quarantine those are personal failings. It isn’t the government, the school system, or anyone else’s fault. People need to learn some personal responsibility. [/quote]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3601399

[i]To combat the spread of COVID-19, many primary and secondary schools in the United States canceled classes and moved instruction online. This study examines an unexplored consequence of COVID-19 school closures: the broken link between child maltreatment victims and the number one source of reported maltreatment allegations - school personnel. Using current, county-level data from Florida, we estimate a counterfactual distribution of child maltreatment allegations for March and April 2020, the first two months in which Florida schools closed. While one would expect the financial, mental, and physical stress due to COVID-19 to result in additional child maltreatment cases, we find that the actual number of reported allegations was approximately 15,000 lower (27 percent) than expected for these two months. We leverage a detailed dataset of school district staffing and spending to show that the observed decline in allegations was primarily driven by school closures. Finally, we discuss policy implications of our findings and suggest a number of responses that may mitigate this hidden cost of school closures.[/i][/quote]

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