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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will never understand the "we don't know what the long-term effects of long covid" are crowd. Here is one thing we know for sure: the long term effects of school closings, for poorer children especially, are disastrous and life-long. [/quote]

I'm sure you're just as concerned with how in-person school was failing poorer children too.  You probably even donated $20 to a cause. Just heart warming.[/quote]

You don't understand much. I emphasized the effect on poorer children because (a) it is well documented (b) my own kids have been progressing well even with virtual (though it bears mentioning that many have not regardless of social and economic capital) (c) these phenomena seem best viewed from a societal point of view, than from an individual one. But, hey you got in what you thought was a dunk. [/quote]

1) we don’t know the long term effects; we know short term how it impacted learning. It shouldn’t be surprising that in a truncated year (4 days/week compared to 5) scores were lower

2) Stop using poor kids as your reasoning to come back into schools. The PP is right. This site consistently trashes lower income schools and families. Just yesterday I saw one person refer to them as “poors” and  another discount certain ES because the amount of at-risk students in the school population. I’ve worked at both a W3 and RISE school during the pandemic and the amount of resource hoarding at the wealthy school shows that this “outrage” for lower income kids and their situations is just something people put on the internet to push their own self interest[/quote]

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