The majority of this seems to revolve around the disruptions COVID created and the ongoing effect. While I think a COVID response was necessary, it was significantly costly and poorly thought thru. Online education alone was particularly poor as an effective learning tool. In the older grades there was a significant number of people that doubly dropped out and it now appears the overall attendance in the younger grades that got use to simply not going to school has extended some to this day.
During the hight of COVID, people would argue that there was no cost great enough to protect us from this virus. On top of this, people thought we could implement this and that it would have little long term effects once we got past it. That simply was nieve thinking. Kids I believe will pay the most. Lower economic outcome and higher debt is the result. And those two means that much less money for healthcare. How many will die and early death because of that?
The majority of this seems to revolve around the disruptions COVID created and the ongoing effect. While I think a COVID response was necessary, it was significantly costly and poorly thought thru. Online education alone was particularly poor as an effective learning tool. In the older grades there was a significant number of people that doubly dropped out and it now appears the overall attendance in the younger grades that got use to simply not going to school has extended some to this day.
During the hight of COVID, people would argue that there was no cost great enough to protect us from this virus. On top of this, people thought we could implement this and that it would have little long term effects once we got past it. That simply was nieve thinking. Kids I believe will pay the most. Lower economic outcome and higher debt is the result. And those two means that much less money for healthcare. How many will die and early death because of that?