A reason I spoke out against the school closures in the summer of 2020 is that it was very obvious some of these students would be lost to the public school system permanently and that the horrid Betsy DeVos (remember her?) was doing everything she could to make that happen.

https://twitter.com/JoshGoodman_BU/status/1773015054155190432

"Public-school closings & the concurrent rise of home schooling for those with the most wealth & social capital ... are a slippery slope, the sort of thing that occurs in countries that are sliding backward. A society that won't prioritize all of its children is a failing one."

Personal news: There’s no great way to announce this. I’m out at the Washington Post. I was supposed to be there 6 months, instead I stayed 6 yrs. As my goodbye, I'm sharing links to my personal favorites of my own columns. Enjoy! 1/ I wrote a lot about our age of inequality and how it plays out in both our personal lives and politics 2/

Everyone will bring their priors to this and I'm no exception so let me say this: we cannot separate the decline of children's independent activity with peer pressure on (mostly) moms coming from both society and the schools 1/

https://twitter.com/Athan_K/status/1713357374369440129

Remember the Montgomery County parents who were subjected to multiple complaints because they ... wait for it ... let their children play in a park alone? washingtonpost.com/local/crime/mo…

My latest: How the Pandemic Ended America's bad romance with work. "In February 2020, few would have predicted the wave of dissatisfaction that was about to roll over the American workplace ... 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… "Commenters have tried to name the .. trend The Great Resignation. The Great Renegotiation. Quiet Quitting. The Great Reevaluation. It’s .. a movement that spans striking nurses and unionizing strippers, Amazon warehouse workers and work-from-home Wall Street bankers." 2/