1/ It's a mistake to think that kids' mental health problems are just because of school closures as opposed to pandemic trauma broadly, plus climate change, school shootings, and all the ways adults are fucking their future.
just as...
just as...
2/...it's a mistake to think that teachers are concerned only with their own health. Or that the POC parents who were among the most reluctant to send kids back before vaccines were available/pandemic ebbed aren't making nuanced risk assessments of relative risks to their kids.
3/ You don't have to have kids to recognize that these tradeoffs aren't easily reduced, you only need to listen to a wide variety of parents, kids, and educators.
but...
but...
4/ If you don't have kids, if you're not a teacher, or a school administrator, or a epidemiologist, or a public health expert, or even someone who reports (like you know, talk to actual humans) on any of those things, maybe consider that you're not best positioned to pontificate.
5/ Finally, it is a mistake to conflate (🙏) short closures that may arise mostly from staff shortages due to huge spike and (🙏) rapid fall of Omnicron to those from before we had vaccines, treatments, understanding of Covid.
A point that kicked off this whole contretemps.
A point that kicked off this whole contretemps.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
