{"id":1712228,"date":"2022-10-26T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712228"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:34:00","slug":"democrats-gaslighting-about-covid-school-closures-wont-work-because-we-have-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-gaslighting-about-covid-school-closures-wont-work-because-we-have-receipts\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Gaslighting About Covid School Closures Won\u2019t Work Because We Have Receipts"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocrats-gaslighting-about-covid-school-closures-wont-work-because-we-have-receipts%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=1712228&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>In a recent debate between Florida\u2019s gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Charlie Crist attempted to smear incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the \u201cshutdown guy\u201d in reference to his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Never mind that it\u2019s governors from Crist\u2019s own party who still haven\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/10\/17\/governor-newsom-to-end-the-covid-19-state-of-emergency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ended<\/a> their Covid-19 states of emergency, while DeSantis reopened Florida a full two years ago. <\/p>\n<p>One of the most disastrous consequences of lockdowns was the drop in students\u2019 educational competence \u2014 and, as an analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows, the denial of in-person learning to students was concentrated in Democrat-run states. NBER ranked each state and the District of Columbia based on the percentage of the 2020-2021 school year that took place in person. Republican states \u2014 including Florida \u2014 had the highest percentages of in-person school learning. <\/p>\n<p>Among the top 20 states with the highest in-person school ranking, 19 of the states have Republican governors. This includes Wyoming, which ranks at No. 1 with 100 percent in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year. Florida ranked at No. 3 with 96.2 percent in-person schooling that academic year, refuting Crist\u2019s absurd claim that DeSantis was the \u201cshutdown guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder: A National Bureau of Economic Research analysis showed that 19 of the top 20 states for getting kids back to in-person schooling during the 2020-2021 school year were led by Republicans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QRNVP0EMwF\">pic.twitter.com\/QRNVP0EMwF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyPigott\/status\/1584923793579016192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the 20 states with the lowest amount of in-person schooling during the 2020-2021 academic year were almost all governed by Democrats, with the exception of Massachusetts and Maryland. The two worst-performing areas \u2014 California and the District of Columbia \u2014 had a mere 19.2 percent and 5.8 percent in-person learning, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>How did the lack of in-person school affect students\u2019 learning? \u201cMore often students in districts that struggled before the pandemic and had some of the most stringent lockdowns had some of the worst learning loss,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-school-lockdown-catastrophe-naep-test-results-national-assessment-of-educational-progress-11666643369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the Journal noted, the latest National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) scores, known as the nation\u2019s report card, show the mathematics score average for fourth graders in Detroit since 2019 has fallen \u201c12 points to 194\u201420 points below basic mastery of fundamentals.\u201d A local Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/public-interest\/2022\/10\/michigan-students-declining-test-scores-are-clearest-picture-yet-of-pandemic-learning-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> described the NAEP scores for the state as a whole as the \u201c\u2018clearest picture yet\u2019 of the effects disruption during COVID-19 had on children.\u201d Michigan held in-person learning for just over half (55.4 percent) of the 2020-2021 school year, according to NBER.<\/p>\n<p>How do these numbers compare to Florida\u2019s test scores? While the average fourth-grade math scores declined for three districts in the Sunshine State, these districts \u201cremained above basic mastery of math fundamentals in 2022\u201d\u2013 the mastery that Democratic lockdown hotspots like Detroit did not achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the obvious bad faith of his tactic, Crist isn\u2019t the first of the pro-lockdown leftists to try to gaslight Americans about Democrats\u2019 own role in shutting down the country. As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent debate between Florida\u2019s gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Charlie Crist attempted to smear incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the \u201cshutdown guy\u201d in reference to his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Never mind that it\u2019s governors from Crist\u2019s own party who still haven\u2019t ended their Covid-19 states of emergency, while DeSantis reopened Florida a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":1712231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712228","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\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}