Guys, you may want to sit down for this news … it seems that kids aren’t quite as resilient as Democrats told us they were and that the school shutdowns set kids back a great deal educationally, developmentally, and socially.
Read @DLeonhardt on the catastrophic backsliding in educational equality set off by school closures — still incredible levels of denial about this.https://t.co/w0PSsb7hvO pic.twitter.com/5H2AZshLCj
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 5, 2022
Huh. I’m old enough to remember when the people bleating loudest about eQuItY called those of us who predicted this exact outcome and fought to change it racist. https://t.co/dwQGmS23m0
— Corie Whalen (@CorieWhalen) May 5, 2022
We’re also old enough to remember when our Secretary of Education pretended that the Democratic Party always cared about doing what’s best for our kids.
Because he’s still doing it. Miguel Cardona linked to David Leonhardt’s New York Times piece today, and the way he’s talking about it, you’d think that the Biden administration has been looking out for the children this whole time:
This study rightly quantifies & highlights something that every parent, caregiver, and educator has seen over the last two years—that the pandemic had a tremendous impact on our children. https://t.co/bcvpP5QbWH
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
It also affirms President Biden’s Day One call to get schools safely open for in-person learning, keep them open, and help students catch up.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
We’re not even going to bother trying to pick our jaws up off the floor, because they’ll just fall right back down again.
I’m proud that the American Rescue Plan has distributed $130 billion to accelerate these efforts and we have gone from 46% of schools open for in-person instruction one year ago to nearly 100 percent open full-time today.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
With students back in classrooms, we cannot let up in our efforts to help students recover academically and emotionally.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
.@POTUS urged states & districts to invest in strategies to close the gaps we saw expand during the pandemic which includes hiring more educators, investing in tutoring, after-school and summer programs and supporting students’ mental health.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
This study only underscores that every dollar of those resources will be vital to help our students grow and recover from the pandemic.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) May 5, 2022
This is some Randi-Weingarten-level gaslighting. Holy hell. These liberal “education” advocates appear to be under the impression that we’ve all been asleep for the past two years.
Hate to break it to them, but we’re wide awake. And we’ve been watching their every move.
Look in the mirror https://t.co/dDGIqLyPhi
— John Buckley (@JPBuckley4241) May 5, 2022
Republicans have been called racist and conspiracy theorist for saying this exact same thing for the last 2 years. https://t.co/17zqbD8KTr
— Paula 🇺🇸 (@pc_mj1981) May 5, 2022
This is literally your fault. It wasn't "the pandemic," it was "stupid policies pushed during the pandemic because Randi Weingarten told us to." https://t.co/4E1IwpXQjS
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) May 5, 2022
Parents worried and warned two years ago. Y'all called us Neanderthals. I'll remember in November. https://t.co/ApbfQO7IhV
— Blank (@raven_whisperer) May 5, 2022
We all will.
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