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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

You know there was a pandemic, right?

Yes, and there were times where shutting down schools made sense (particularly early on when we didn't yet know that schools drive relatively little spread and perhaps again now when omicron is probably going to make it hard to even staff some schools for a few weeks). But it was always a very large tradeoff that was going to have very negative effects on many kids, and it's insane that as a society we didn't prioritize keeping schools open as much as possible over even stuff like bars and restaurants. Masks should be required (or even better masks+vaccines), but generally there should be a high priority placed on keeping kids in school now unless absolutely necessary.

There are people arguing not that it's a necessary tradeoff but that remote learning is a totally equivalent substitute for in person learning which is ridiculous for young kids.