{"id":1105629,"date":"2021-12-10T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105629"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:44:21","slug":"nationwide-school-closures-continue-to-impact-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nationwide-school-closures-continue-to-impact-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide School Closures Continue To Impact Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnationwide-school-closures-continue-to-impact-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105629&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Schools are starting to close down again in some areas of the country in an apparent effort to keep teachers happy, but parents are speaking out against the negative impacts of schooling interruptions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/08\/us\/schools-closed-fridays-remote-learning.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, at least six Michigan school districts prolonged Thanksgiving break, and three districts in Washington randomly closed on the day after Veterans Day.&nbsp;A district near Detroit told parents on a Sunday in October that it would be remote on Friday \u2014 and then continue every Friday until February.&nbsp;The school \u201cclaimed the move would help the district deal with the challenges of enhanced COVID-related cleaning and staff shortages,\u201d per local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigancapitolconfidential.com\/parents-students-take-a-back-seat-as-school-districts-announce-last-minute-closures\">outlet<\/a> Michigan Capitol Confidential. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One school in Florida shut <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrevardSchools\/status\/1458532146344235013\">down<\/a> schools for the whole week of Thanksgiving, citing the fact that they hadn\u2019t used any \u201churricane days.\u201d A Utah school district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canyonsdistrict.org\/general-news\/canyons-to-bring-back-six-remote-learning-fridays\/\">said<\/a> all of its schools will do remote learning one Friday each month from November until March. A school in Oregon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/parents-frustrated-reynolds-middle-school-remote-learning\/283-6f0628f4-94ef-4f57-855e-97d8e5d66f94\">called<\/a> off in person classes for twenty days because of fights happening at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One possible reason for the closures appears to be related to keeping teachers\u2019 morale high. Since the remote learning style wasn\u2019t widely available before COVID hit, it now appears as if schools are offering this to teachers to prevent them from leaving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The teachers\u2019 union in Portland, Oregon, is suggesting early-release days for some of its schools after they come back from winter recess. Elizabeth Thiel, the president of the Portland Association of Teachers, said they\u2019re getting an \u201calarming\u201d amount of teachers asking for assistance in quitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt is far better for our students and families to be able to plan on an inconvenience like that, than it would be for the whole system to stop functioning,\u201d Thiel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, told The Times, \u201cWhat you hear from teachers is that it\u2019s been too much,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re trying the best that they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The closures that took place during COVID and appear to be happening again in some areas have had a negative impact on students.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times ran a headline earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/08\/us\/school-testing-education-covid.html\">titled<\/a> \u201cDoes It Hurt Children To Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?\u201d The piece argued that shining a light on the lost learning might \u201cincite a moral panic\u201d and \u201c[paint] an entire generation as broken.\u201d&nbsp; The data would also reveal that the largest losses were among black, Hispanic, and low income children, information which some educators argue would be damaging if revealed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w29497\/w29497.pdf\">Analysis<\/a> by the National Bureau of Economic Research found \u201ca decline in pass rates from the 2018-19 school year to the 2020-21 school year in all states.\u201d The decline ranged from -31.9 percentage points to -2.3 percentage points. The data suggests there were significant declines in test scores overall during the 2020-21 school year, \u201cand these declines were larger in school districts with less in-person instruction.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">More research showed that the harm didn\u2019t end after schools reopened, but has built over time. For example, this spring third graders at a low-income school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/28\/us\/covid-schools-at-home-learning-study.html\">scored<\/a> 17 percentile points lower in math when contrasted with similar students in 2019. Students in wealthier schools also scored lower than in the past, but not as drastically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/industries\/education\/our-insights\/covid-19-and-education-the-lingering-effects-of-unfinished-learning\">report<\/a> from earlier this year showed that kids were, on average, four months behind in reading and five months behind in math. Location and income level was also a factor. Students in lower income households, urban areas fell behind more than kids in higher income households and those who lived in higher income rural communities. The report found that black and Hispanic children were also more negatively affected than their white peers in both reading and math.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As parents struggle to find childcare and personally witness the impact of remote learning on their children, there could be even more pushback on these types of schooling changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are starting to close down again in some areas of the country in an apparent effort to keep teachers happy, but parents are speaking out against the negative impacts of schooling interruptions.\u00a0According to The New York Times, at least six Michigan school districts prolonged Thanksgiving break, and three districts in Washington randomly closed on the day after Veterans Day.\u00a0A district near Detroit told parents on a Sunday in October that it would be remote on Friday \u2014 and then continue every Friday until February.\u00a0The school \u201cclaimed the move would help the district deal with the challenges of enhanced COVID-related cleaning and staff shortages,\u201d per local outlet Michigan Capitol Confidential. \u00a0One school in Florida shut down schools for the whole week of Thanksgiving, citing the fact that they hadn\u2019t used any \u201churricane days.\u201d A Utah school district said all of its schools will do remote learning one Friday each month from November until March. A school in Oregon called off in person classes for twenty days because of fights happening at the school.One possible reason for the closures appears to be related to keeping teachers\u2019 morale high. Since the remote learning style wasn\u2019t widely available before COVID hit, it now appears as if schools are offering this to teachers to prevent them from leaving.The teachers\u2019 union in Portland, Oregon, is suggesting early-release days for some of its schools after they come back from winter recess. Elizabeth Thiel, the president of the Portland Association of Teachers, said they\u2019re getting an \u201calarming\u201d amount of teachers asking for assistance in quitting.\u201cIt is far better for our students and families to be able to plan on an inconvenience like that, than it would be for the whole system to stop functioning,\u201d Thiel said.Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, told The Times, \u201cWhat you hear from teachers is that it\u2019s been too much,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re trying the best that they can.\u201dThe closures that took place during COVID and appear to be happening again in some areas have had a negative impact on students.The New York Times ran a headline earlier this year titled \u201cDoes It Hurt Children To Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?\u201d The piece argued that shining a light on the lost learning might \u201cincite a moral panic\u201d and \u201c[paint] an entire generation as broken.\u201d\u00a0 The data would also reveal that the largest losses were among black, Hispanic, and low income children, information which some educators argue would be damaging if revealed. Analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research found \u201ca decline in pass rates from the 2018-19 school year to the 2020-21 school year in all states.\u201d The decline ranged from -31.9 percentage points to -2.3 percentage points. The data suggests there were significant declines in test scores overall during the 2020-21 school year, \u201cand these declines were larger in school districts with less in-person instruction.\u201d\u00a0More research showed that the harm didn\u2019t end after schools reopened, but has built over time. For example, this spring third graders at a low-income school scored 17 percentile points lower in math when contrasted with similar students in 2019. Students in wealthier schools also scored lower than in the past, but not as drastically.One report from earlier this year showed that kids were, on average, four months behind in reading and five months behind in math. Location and income level was also a factor. Students in lower income households, urban areas fell behind more than kids in higher income households and those who lived in higher income rural communities. The report found that black and Hispanic children were also more negatively affected than their white peers in both reading and math.As parents struggle to find childcare and personally witness the impact of remote learning on their children, there could be even more pushback on these types of schooling changes.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}