Some families can manage to keep their kids learning and less-stressed. Others, with less resources, won't be able to do so. I suspect the ones left behind will pay a huge, lifelong price, will never catch up, and, sadly, show up in every research study for the next four decades.https://twitter.com/rorycooper/status/1303319674164318209 …
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I don't understand how is not topic number one. Keeping young kids out of formal schooling and in high-stress, little/no supervision situations for a year or more—that's where we're headed—is potentially a life-changing event for children whose families cannot cushion the impact.
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"how is this not topic number one?" Because the U.S. is disintegrating as a polity. Its systems are slowly breaking apart or shutting down — or being shut down — as we get closer to the election. The attention system is one. This is an autocratic attempt, as
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Where's the local initiative? Where is the alleged entrepreneural spirit? There is deep malaise going on.
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You're right to ask where those things have gone. Deeper than a malaise.
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Could it have anything to do with decades of GOP throttling of public education and school boards littered with evangelicals?
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But also: I'm hearing stories from very liberal towns, with none of that in place, with well-credentialed public health experts begging to help, and getting ignored.
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