AS FORECAST: U.S. Schools See 'Explosion' of Students Missing from Class
COVID-19 lockdowns were a catastrophe for young people and not one politician will have to answer why locking children out of the classroom was the logical solution
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The New York Times published a report on Saturday titled, “Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere,” which said 26 percent of school students in the U.S. were “considered chronically absent last school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic.”
TRENDSPOST: It was not “the pandemic” that caused this. It was the politicians and bureaucrats who locked down public schools, leading to a mental health crisis that is just now beginning to emerge.
Gov. Gavin Newsom was the face of school lockdowns.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom kept my kids out of their public schools for nearly a year and a half with no good scientific or epidemiological justification. His record on education is the worst in the country,” Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of of medicine at Stanford posted on X.
The Times’s report, which cited data collected by the American Enterprise Institute, spoke to Katie Rosanbalm, a psychologist and associate research professor with the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, who said, “Our relationship with school became optional” during the lockdowns.
AEI reported that chronic absenteeism is the percentage of students missing at least 10 percent of a school year. Chronic absenteeism increased for all district types, but rates were highest in districts with low achievement and higher poverty, affecting over one in three students, the think tank said.
“In 2022, 16 percent of Asian students and 24 percent of white students were chronically absent, compared to 36 percent of Hispanic students and 39 percent of black students,” the report said.
TRENDPOST: Reports on U.S. school children still suffering from the mandates imposed by power-hungry maniacs in a government near you should surprise nobody and certainly not devoted readers of this magazine.
The COVID-19 lockdowns were a catastrophe for young people and not one politician will have to answer why locking children out of the classroom was the logical solution to prevent the spread of a virus that was only marginally dangerous to the oldest and sickest among us. The U.S. claims some 1.18 million died of the coronavirus since 2020, and of those, just 1,314 were children from 0-17 years old. Those under the age of 30 accounted for just about .75 percent of the deaths
.The COVID-19 lockdowns were a catastrophe for young people and not one politician will have to answer why locking children out of the classroom was the logical solution.
On 17 November 2020, we wrote: While fear and anxiety escalate in America and more schools are being shut down, in Europe, despite the fear of cases rising and new rounds of lockdown rules, many EU nations, in view of growing evidence based on science, are keeping schools open.
“Across Europe, schools and child care centers are staying open even as much of the continent reports rising coronavirus cases, and even as many businesses and gathering places are shut or restricted. Countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy appear to be following the emerging evidence that schools have not been major centers of transmission of the virus, especially for young children. And experts say these nations are also demonstrating a commitment to avoiding the worst impacts of the pandemic on children.”
We wrote: Again, the mental damage inflicted on young people whose parents have enlisted to fight the COVID War will dramatically alter interpersonal skills and relationships.
While mainstream media continues to push headlines of spiking virus “cases,” they totally ignore the reason for rising cases is from the fear they are selling, which has accelerated a sharp spike of worried people getting tested. And, they downplay the fact that fatality rates for young people are minimal… and the extensive shutdown of schools is harming millions of kids.
Indeed, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), it is important to get kids back in school, as the mental and physical damage inflicted on “stay at home and learn” children greatly outweigh virus risks. The AAP says:
“The importance of in-person learning is well-documented, and there is already evidence of the negative impacts on children because of school closures in the spring of 2020. Lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation.
This, in turn, places children and adolescents at considerable risk of morbidity and, in some cases, mortality. Beyond the educational impact and social impact of school closures, there has been substantial impact on food security and physical activity for children and families. The disproportionate impact this has had on Black, Latino, and Native American/Alaskan Native children and adolescents must also be recognized.”
Dan Andrews in Vic Aus really impacted how my kids relate to school
I want him punished
All of these children were plunged into a state of isolation and dislocation…because their idiot school district bureaucrats wouldn’t spend a few hundred thousand $$$$$$$$ on AIR FILTERS IN EVERY CLASSROOM.
That’s what this fiasco boils down to, in the end.
These useless hypocrites in political office continue to fret over “the next pandemic”…yet, they STILL HAVE NOT PURCHASED AIR FILTERS for their schools.