👉 NYC schools hadn’t even closed as of March 8, 2020.
@sheeraf is allowed to allege that parents who wanted schools reopened and questioned vaccine mandates are purveyors of misinfo… based on that article & no other evidence?
Ridiculous.
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Uvalde shooter ‘was identified as “at risk” academically by 3rd grade & experienced bullying in elementary school. He harbored bad memories of 4th grade in particular… it was in his former fourth-grade classroom where he eventually committed’ the shooting motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
That is such a chilling detail.
Then everything went downhill after school closures.
Back to his earlier educational experience…
He was Googling for information about dyslexia, y’all.
On behalf of the many parents who read the intl data on school reopening, said we could safely open schools in the face of resistance or silence from our leaders, and were 100% right:
Yes, sometimes the mom has the better read of the data.
.@KelleyKga is batting 1,000 in her COVID data analysis, and her (unpaid!) work has yielded a number of corrections.
This sort of disdain is not a good look in a country that, *ahem*, made its share of mistakes in how it approached COVID and children.
Here’s a BMJ award winner commending the study authors who misrepresented COVID mortality vs other causes in children for revising their work, based on @KelleyKga’s careful eye.
But the really distinguishing thing that Tennessee did was get high-quality curriculum into virtually every district, as @lisacoons10 explained to @natwexler.
That #TNBestForAll initiative predated the pandemic, and set the foundation for what followed.
This year, @TNedu is doing something truly pioneering, adding a Secondary Literacy Training for upper grade Eds, in addition to its well-reviewed Early Reading Training.
This is huge! Many kids get to secondary w/ reading struggles. Teachers need more support.