[bluecatswim]

>He casually says stuff like school closures will haunt society for 100 years

Well maybe you can accuse him of exaggerating but it's true to an extent. In my (third world) country students have effectively missed two years of schooling, I know some primary students who don't know how to read/write very well.

[skinnymuch]

He was referring to the US. the problem is in a number of cases, the most effected groups like minority people[0] with less money, they didn’t want to risk having their child go to school. Those are the groups most effected negatively by distance learning. In that case, what is the blogger fighting for then? If in person schooling started earlier. These kids would be screwed over 10x more staying home while their better off peers go to in person school if school was open in 2020. Which is what he wanted and blamed progressives for messing up.

Since pandemic I have lived in two places: one affluent and the other solidly middle class. Anecdotally, it didn’t seem like any of the children were close to harmed in a generational way. Society already screws over less affluent and colored students their entire lives. It’s interesting that only now the blogger and conservatives care about the well being of these kids’ educations. When otherwise the status quo does not benefit them.

0 the references I’ve seen that I remember are Hispanic and black parents not wanting their kids to go back to in person school.