Two things, here. Another article that manages to avoid mentioning Covid even once. Millions of kids and…

Two things, here. Another article that manages to avoid mentioning Covid even once. Millions of kids and their teachers being infected, multiple times, doesn’t even come up as a hypothesis. Ask any teacher about Covid absences, the tsunami of them. /1 https://t.co/rPfHfHGou3

Secondly, note the acceptance that attendance was declining even before the pandemic. The idea that ‘lockdowns’ severed students from their beloved schools? Many kids hate school. They were voting with their feet already, before Covid. And our educational performance outcomes…/2

…have been in free fall for a decade. Schools were already broken, now they’re broken and breeding grounds for community spread of Covid as well. It’s decades of ‘there is no such thing as society’ politics which has done this. 3/3