[ May 3, 2024 ]
The Democrats forced the young to give up their lives, their future, their happiness. Imagine forcing young people to stay home when there is no threat to them, forgoing school, socializing, normal human living.
Quarter of Young Adults Considered Suicide in Past Month
Attributed directly to the pandemic and “the impact of physical distancing and stay-at-home orders” (CDC). Another story notes “The data also flags a surge of anxiety and substance abuse, with more than 40 percent of those surveyed saying they experienced a mental or behavioral health condition connected to the Covid-19 emergency” (Politico). From Josh Kraushaar: Stunning figure — one that underscores concerns that shutdowns can create their own health crises (Twitter). From Sarah Lee: The irony of a population of young people being driven to consider ending their lives because they’ve been asked to hide away from a virus that is unlikely to kill them is almost too much to comprehend. Yet that is apparently part of what the nation must grapple with even as debate continues to rage over whether children should return to schools, college-age athletes are told to abandon their dreams and leave the field, and one candidate for president suggest a nation-wide mask mandate should be in effect for the next three months (Red State). Biden and Harris seek to make things worse (Twitter).
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Harvard Professor: Closing Schools Could Mean 10 Percent Lower Earnings For The Rest Of This Generation’s Lives
On Wednesday, the White House held an event discussing school reopenings with mothers, teachers, doctors, politicians, and subject-matter experts.A year off from school will depress students’ academic outcomes and decrease their future earnings by 10 percent for life, according to a Harvard University researcher.
On Wednesday, the White House held an event discussing school reopenings. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway spoke with mothers, teachers, doctors, politicians, and subject-matter experts to emphasize the importance of allowing students to return to the classroom in the fall, and dispel rumors about safety precautions.
Keeping Kids From School Will Affect Their Entire Lives
Dr. Paul Peterson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and the director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard, explored the serious risks of not sending students back. According to his research, the longer the schools are shut down, the lower this generation’s future earnings will be, and they will never recover.
“For every year that you spend in school, in the future, you will earn 10 percent more in lifetime earnings,” he said of his research. “So, if we locked down schools for a year, we assign this generation of students to a 10 percent earning loss in the rest of their life.”
Alongside the reduced future earnings, Peterson argues that serious non-academic growth will be lost in a virtual environment. The social growth and learning that comes from studying alongside peers cannot be replicated through online streaming.
Further, it is easier for problems, both academic and personal, to fall through the cracks when learning is not in person. Peterson relayed a story of how he discovered he needed glasses only when an elementary school teacher noted a problem. Personalized help like this will be lost.
Mothers’ Concerns about Academics Are Serious, Too
Several mothers from the East Coast and Midwest raised various concerns about the problems with distance learning. While each mother had different reasons the issue mattered to her, they all agreed classes must resume in person come fall.
Elica Macia, a single mother from Wisconsin, explained how the support system of attending school in person greatly benefitted her bilingual son. She said: “It was kind of difficult for him because it’s really hard being bilingual and having to — to learn two different languages… That was the advantage that, when he needed help, teachers were there to help him and, you know, fulfilled whatever gap, you know, was not being covered.”
Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is a neonatologist with three children who supports returning to schools as both a doctor and a mother. She expressed a concern with virtual learning, especially for younger students, where the social growth and peer interactions are as central to education as academics.
“My children, I would say, did not have a great experience in the spring, particularly my youngest, who was in first grade at the time. I think the online learning for the young ones, it just doesn’t work,” Piasecki said.
Piasecki is also concerned that school shutdown measures are prioritizing the minimal risk of the disease to children over the immense problems associated with forgoing in-person learning. “The science is so clear that the risk of death or hospitalization for children with this virus is so, so low, but we know the risk of missing school are catastrophic,” she noted.
Lindsay Ammons saw her intellectually curious children grow depressed and fall behind academically during distance learning this spring. When her children’s school district in Fairfax County decided to go entirely remote in the fall, she and fellow parents in their community set up a pod for homeschooling, to maintain both the academic rigor and social aspects of school.
Nina Alvarez, a small-business owner from Tennessee, explained why school reopening can be important for parents as well as teachers. She, like many other parents, struggled to balance running her business and teaching her children, causing both to suffer in quality.
Important Resources For Special Needs Children
Janie Neeley is a former public school teacher and a mother of two from South Carolina whose school district has decided on exclusively distance learning this fall. While she is sure her high schooler will be alright with the change, she is concerned for her kindergartener, who has Down Syndrome. Neeley expressed how, for special-needs children, schools especially provide much-needed support.
“Schools not only provide the academics for students with special needs, but it also provides the much-needed therapies and services to address developmental delays. And the structure and routine of a school day is so critical for this population of students. It simply cannot be replicated in a virtual platform, and especially for a kindergartner with Down Syndrome,” she said.
Her husband, Chris, who is the chairman of the president’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, and Richard Corcoran, Florida’s Commissioner of Education, both expressed the special importance of special-needs children returning to school. The importance of in-school therapies and social interaction with other students is insurmountable for such children.
Teachers Wanting To Return
There has been countless media coverage of teachers protesting the reopening of schools. However, far from every teacher is hesitant to get back into the classroom. Some are actively pushing to return to their students.
An Arkansas special education teacher, Lynne Gronseth, expressed that, even with being higher risk for coronavirus difficulties due to asthma, she wants to be back in the classroom, helping her students. She explained that students in her special education program need in-person resources that do not translate well over Zoom. She worked with her public school district to create protocols that allow teachers and students to return to class safely.
Claudia Valladares, a Texan kindergarten teacher, ran a safe and successful socially distanced in-person school this summer. With the summer school precautions proving to work, including “social distancing, six-feet apart; and children had to wear masks, 10 and older,” without a COVID outbreak, it became clear that reopening was not just possible, but the proper decision.
Paulina Enck is an intern at the Federalist and current student at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service. Follow her on Twitter at @itspaulinaenck
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18 Comments
3 years ago
This is the EXTREME DEMS are going to, to get Trump out!
There are always going to be issues that you would do differently if you were President.
Time to put that aside. Biden and Kammmmmalllla will make our country a living hell.
Vote for Trump and do what you can to help him win.
3 years ago
Trump is supposed to be issuing an EO to allow the money to follow the student so they can attend a school that wants to open. He is stuck with EOs since he has no support from DEMS for legislation on it. Their bigger priority is readying the P.O for mail in voting to steal the election and bailing out bankrupt DEM states. We’ll see how that works out.
3 years ago
What the Left is doing to this country is a crime against humanity! I can’t take this anymore! Let my people go!
Enough is enough. If you get it, you get it!
3 years ago
Dr. Fraudsi needs to be charged with crimes against humanity. We’ll see if he’s laughing then!
Doesn’t anyone retire in this country? The fraud is 80 years old. Time to kindly leave the stage.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
He’s addicted to power and money like Pelosi and can’t let go.
Now it’s worse. He sees himself as a medical celebrity.
3 years ago
Since the schools are only funnels to get these kids into indoctrination centers known as “Universities” which pretty much funnels them to WOKE jobs, the kids would be better off getting training in trade schools.
The University scam is coming to an end anyway…..the only silver lining from the scamdemic.
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
When I was in School way back when, we had Shop Classes and BOCES where the student could attend for advanced training in auto mechanics, electrician, welding carpentry and other skills and trades . Nowadays you have to look far and wide to find a high school that has shop classes or even books for that matter.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sgt Snuffy
I remember shop classes. I still have a couple tidbits that I built when the woodworking portion of the class was being taught.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sgt Snuffy
practical training. Much more useful than woke teachings. woke is for submissive idiots.
3 years ago
Big whup, they weren’t learning anything in school anyway, 80% of the kids coming out of the Government run Public school system nowadays can barely read or even write their names, and doing simple math , well forget about it. Just about every public schools system in the United States is failing. The only schools showing good to excellent work are the Charter and Private Schools. Government run schools have a very dismal record. And who wants to shut down Charter and Private Schools ??? Why the Teachers Union of course. And don’t even try and talk to the local school boards they won’t even let parents speak out even though they are elected by the people. 95% of the school boards in the country think they are God’s gift to mankind.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sgt Snuffy
And in our community, which is only 15% Black, the school board is at least 85% Black and they have an agenda, which is to “narrow the achievement gap.” And they are narrowing it by denying an education to White children in an attempt to bring their scores on exams down as low as the Black kids are. And anyone who mentions this is? A racist of course.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sgt Snuffy
Schools Closed
Should be a big refund for taxpayers, right?
Schools are funded by, property taxes, gas taxes, lotteries, sales taxes, feds and only work 180 days a Year.
Board of education, educates NOBODY, Six Figure Salaries.
And Now, Don’t have a plan. . .
3 years ago
All BS! But do open the schools and let the little libturds get back to school as long as the libturd teachers teach and not fill their heads with crap!
3 years ago
Just open the schools! No social distancing! No masks!
Just open them and let the scardy cats stay home if they are afraid of getting a virus which (if they get it) they won’t even know it because they will not be coughing, sneezing, having a runny nose or sore throat or even a mild fever. Well isn’t that what we are being told??? You have this virus that is not making you feel ill in any way. Just take our word for it because this test that I did says it is so.
3 years ago
3 years ago
25% considered suicide. What a weak minded generation. I blame the weak minded parents. They gave no direction or encouragement. They were to busy chasing other men and woman trying to get laid or just drunk. No self respect, no sense, no self control, no honor. No doing what you say you are going to do. My word is my bond.
