Thanks. What is your evidence that a few weeks/months of missing school will have horrific consequences on children? What is your evidence that in 15 years time, kids that missed a couple months of school socialisation (they still have online learning) will not be fine?
https://twitter.com/paulsaxton/status/1345704892577493008
Anyway, I did not have drive or motivation when I started school after the war or even when I moved to the US. It was just school. I came. I showed up. I learned. I did my homework. The same way millions of kids do each day. It’s about the fact that kids still learn and persevere
The frustrating argument about “well what about all these other issues” is that all the other issues they mention (familial issues, poverty, lack of social safety nets) will continue to exist and kids will still be impacted them even if in school during covid. But they wont die.
If you are concerned about the systematic barriers that cause children to suffer/fall behind, the answer isn’t to force open the schools in the midst of a pandemic but rather to work to fix those issues and advocate for them continually.
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