School shutdowns are crushing low-income and special-needs students
Posted on AllSides December 6th, 2020
From The Right
OPINION
As far as K-12 education is concerned, the distance learning experiment has completely and utterly failed.
Schools were instinctively closed in the spring amid uncertainty about the coronavirus and the dangers it posed, but we soon saw that COVID-19 poses a statistically negligible threat to children. Examples from Europe and research have long since shown that in-person schooling doesn’t lead to spiking levels of COVID-19 transmission.
Yet, in a disgraceful cave to the demands of unreasonable teachers unions, many states and localities have mandated that public and private schools close...
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