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By Veronique de Rugy
Thereâs no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted childhood education. In many countries, kids have physically returned to school. In others, schools were never closed. Yet in the United States, many public schools have been closed since March, yielding disastrous results for millions of kids. While scientific data say itâs safe to bring them back, incentives in the school systems are such that many kids continue to be locked up at home rather than receiving a proper education.
A schoolâs main role is to educate children. They can feed low-income children and supply day care for working parents, but these benefits are secondary to providing a quality education to
There s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted childhood education. In many countries, kids have physically returned to school. In others, schools were never closed. Yet in the United States, many public schools have been closed since March, yielding disastrous results for millions of kids. While scientific data say it s safe to bring them back, incentives in the school systems are such that many kids continue to be locked up at home rather than receiving a proper education.
A school s main role is to educate children. They can feed low-income children and supply day care for working parents, but these benefits are secondary to providing a quality education to
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There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted childhood education. In many countries, kids have physically returned to school. In others, schools were never closed. Yet in the United States, many public schools have been closed since March, yielding disastrous results for millions of kids. While scientific data say it’s safe to bring them back, incentives in the school systems are such that many kids continue to be locked up at home rather than receiving a proper education.
A school’s main role is to educate children. They can feed low-income children and supply day care for working parents, but these benefits are secondary to providing a quality education to all enrolled children.
A request that Arlington County Board members use their influence â whether through sweet-talking or something more forceful â to get county schools back up and running fell largely on deaf ears Dec. 12.
Board members said they were working with their School Board counterparts, but had no power to force a reopening of schools that have been shuttered since last March.
Acknowledging for the record that the situation is âreally, really frustrating,â County Board Chairman Libby Garvey said the county government was providing resources to make an eventual back-to-class rollout possible, but the final say on resuming classes was not theirs.
âWe really are providing all we can,â said Garvey, a former School Board member who, in her re-election bid this year, occasionally opined on the need to get classes back in operation.