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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The average student could begin the next school year having lost as much as a third of the expected progress from the previous year in reading and half of the expected progress in math...

the average student could fall seven months behind academically, while black and Hispanic students could experience even greater learning losses, equivalent to 10 months for black children and nine months for Latinos, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Company, the consulting group."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/coronavirus-education-lost-learning.html[/quote]

Fall behind who?  The imaginary children who stayed in school all year?  [/quote]
Exactly. Schools have been shut down across the country. All these imaginary projections about children “falling behind” an artificial benchmark. [/quote]

This.[/quote]

What? It literally says the comparator is "expected progress from the previous year" -- i.e., marked against standard grade level benchmarks. I assume these are all sock puppets; it can't be that this many people are this clueless.

Also, to the extent we're talking about next year, I will 100% guarantee that many school districts nationwide open as usual. What we do remains to be seen, but I still think everyone is living in a la la land where they assume there will be an effective, widely distributed vaccine shortly. If not, do we really just do this indefinitely? It's crazy. Rolling lockdowns to flatten the curve if hospital or ventilator use hits 90% of regular or 80% of surge capacity (whichever target is higher), as it likely will once regular flu season gets underway next winter. [/quote]

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