The effect of emergency-ordered school closings, learning loss and mask mandates on children
By LIV FINNE | POLICY BRIEF
Aug 16, 2022
Key Findings
1. The governor’s decision to close public schools for nearly two years in response to COVID-19 significantly affected Washington’s 1.1 million public school students.
2. Research shows many students suffered long-term learning loss and psychological and emotional harm, resulting in limited future opportunities in life.
3. State test scores show public schools failed to adequately educate 70 percent of students in math and 52 percent of students in English.
4. Low-income students were most severely affected, with 8,700 fewer such students applying for state-funded college scholarships.
5. Some public schools have dropped standard grading and are automatically passing all students, regardless of the true level of learning they have received.
6. High school students suffered academic, mental and social harms due to enforced isolation from normal community, athletic and school-related activities.
7. Public health findings show the negative educational and social effects of shut-down orders were greater for this very low-risk group than the limited risk of exposure to COVID-19.
8. The 1.1 million students who attend public schools are being automatically promoted to the next grade.
You have a link handy, I wanted to read some of the report. Anyway, there were no Tug conservatives/liberals supporting the closing of the public schools for any extended period of time. On the other hand, the authoritarian leftards all supported caving to the public teacher unions and locking the kids down. What kind of phucking self-centered narcissistic moron couldn't figure out that isolating and masking children for an extended period of time would have a severe lifetime detrimental impact on millions of kids, especially minority kids. Do we get a sorry, we phucked up and won't do it again out of any of them?
Nope, they all went out and voted for a dementia patient that is bought and paid for by the chicoms. I can't imagine being so broken as a human being that they still think that blindly following Fow Chee and the Blue State governors was the high character move.