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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop being hypocrites.  None of you give two shits about the impact that school closures had on society or education in general. All you care about is how much it inconvenienced you.  [/quote]

I care about how it "inconvenienced" me but I also care about the many kids in DC who literally cannot read as a result of school closures. I also care about the link between school closures and an uptick in juvenile crime, a huge problem we all just pretend is unexplainable. Hmm, why are so many teens in DC committing crimes now? Could it be that they were essentially abandoned by the public school system for 16 months and many of them never came back or came back with massive truancy and behavioral problems that it's now harder to address because there is ZERO trust between schools and kids at this point?

No it can't be that. What could it be??[/quote]

They can't read because their parents didn't play a big enough role in their education. I agree that schools should not have been closed for as long as they were, but the massive deficits and subsequent issues with crime and misconduct give credibility to something teachers have been saying for years - a lot of people rely on the school system to raise their children. Schools are not designed to bear the brunt of society's failings, yet that's exactly what we expect them to do. [/quote]

They can’t read because teachers are poorly trained and schools got inexplicably deceived by the “whole language” method. And now schools are doubling down on academic failures by getting rid of tools actually vital to learning (graded homework, quizzes, spelling tests, differentiation) in the name of equity. Schools at some point decided that making teachers feel like they are agents of social justice rather than primarily responsible for teaching content. [/quote]

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