A deep conventional wisdom has it that lib Twitter is a hotbed of demands for school closures. the reality is almost diametrically opposite. The country’s most esteemed and influential liberal/cosmopolitan publications have been dominated by the voices of highly …
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2/ educated, affluent and mostly white people demanding schools never close even for brief periods almost always in the name of minority and/or marginalized students. Meanwhile in the pre-vaccine period, it was precisely these communities which were most resistant to going …
3/ back to in person education. The staunchest voices against school closures of any sort have been people with PhDs working from home. Just speaking for myself I think it made sense to go back to in person once the country was broadly vaxed which it was by last …
4/ September. And despite the totally out of control spread of omicron now ripping through schools I think it makes sense to keep them open because of the mix of generally mild outcomes for kids and the availability of vaccines. But there are many schools right now …
5/ that are spending almost there entire day testing, coordinating isolations and sending kids home. We shouldn’t treat it as some great breach of faith or war crime if a few of them decide to close for half a week. I’m not advocating that and I have heard basically …
6/ no one arguing for any return to remote schooling. It’s not a big stand to say you’re against closures since really no one is calling for them. But we shld be clear what the dynamic is. The loudest voices saying that the country committed some terrible error by closing …
7/ schools in 2020 and even into early 2021 are folks working from home and zoom who have themselves been highly insulated from most of the pandemic. It’s a mass movement of spreadsheets, fancy pants magazines and brown u economists.
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