{"id":1724123,"date":"2022-11-04T03:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724123"},"modified":"2022-11-04T03:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:18:03","slug":"after-destroying-your-kids-education-teachers-unions-think-we-should-all-just-hug-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-destroying-your-kids-education-teachers-unions-think-we-should-all-just-hug-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"After Destroying Your Kids\u2019 Education, Teachers Unions Think We Should All Just Hug It Out"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fafter-destroying-your-kids-education-teachers-unions-think-we-should-all-just-hug-it-out%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=1724123&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>One couldn\u2019t help but notice the ironic timing. One week after the release of results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historically large decline<\/a> in student test scores during Covid-induced lockdowns, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted out approval of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/10\/covid-response-forgiveness\/671879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in The Atlantic calling for \u201ca pandemic amnesty:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the obvious quip of whether there\u2019s an amnesty the left will not support, Weingarten represents perhaps the last person who has the right to advance this message. School lockdowns went on for far longer than they needed to, thanks to Weingarten and her union cronies \u2014 and America\u2019s children paid the price. Parents across the country can and should take offense at Weingarten\u2019s dismissive attempt at self-absolution.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Public Schools\u2019 Prolonged Shutdowns<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s intervention aside, The Atlantic<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/10\/covid-response-forgiveness\/671879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> has more than a nugget of truth in it. At the beginning of the pandemic, we didn\u2019t know a lot about Covid \u2014 exactly how and where it was transmitted, how to treat it, and so much else. In such an environment, people obviously would make statements they thought were true, and promote policies they thought beneficial, only to discover that later evidence proved them wrong.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, writer and professor Emily Oster makes a fair point:<\/p>\n<p>There is an emerging (if not universal) consensus that schools in the U.S. were closed for too long: The health risks of in-school spread were relatively low, whereas the costs to students\u2019 well-being and educational progress were high. The latest figures on learning loss are\u00a0alarming.\u00a0But in spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers of information. Reasonable people \u2014 people who cared about children and teachers \u2014 advocated on both sides of the reopening debate.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the key qualifier here: \u201c<em>In spring and summer 2020<\/em>,\u201d people had little information about how Covid spread, and therefore (in Oster\u2019s view) school lockdowns seemed reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>But lockdowns didn\u2019t last only through spring and summer 2020. In many cases, they lasted through the spring of 2021. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.returntolearntracker.net\/instructional_status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tracker<\/a> of schools\u2019 opening status found that a majority of public schools did not go back to fully in-person learning until the week of April 19, 2021. That\u2019s more than one year after the pandemic began, and well after the period in which Oster argues incomplete and imperfect information should excuse public officials\u2019 poor policy choices. Well into January 2021, at least 1 in 6 public schools remained fully remote, with the schoolhouse doors shut to all would-be learners.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amid-the-pandemic-progress-in-catholic-schools-partnership-naep-report-card-math-reading-public-charter-black-hispanic-11666902117?mod=opinion_major_pos5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in The Wall Street Journal, released on the heels of the dismal NAEP scores nationwide, notes that Catholic schools took a different approach. Most Catholic schools had reopened their doors by the fall of 2020. And whereas public school students\u2019 test scores dropped dramatically from pre-pandemic levels, scores in Catholic schools actually rose \u2014 particularly for African American and Hispanic students.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, by the fall of 2020, school closures, and the drop in test scores that appear to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents across the country can and should take offense at AFT President Randi Weingarten\u2019s dismissive attempt at self-absolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1724126,"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-1724123","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\/1724123","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}